04-24-2013, 04:07 AM
Quote:Diocle post=336033 Wrote:he's wearing what the Anglosaxon historians call Ridge Helmet...but.....
You might like this debate from long ago:
Frankhelms?
Sadly most of the links are dead now, and you can ignore most of my ramblings about gladiators etc... But suffice to say, I agree these helmets probably represent something real... ;-)
Nathan you are a honest man!...and you can clearly read my mind about gladiatorials Helmets and this kind of Roman Helmets.... :whistle:
Nathan you see the light, Nathan you are a free spirit, Nathan you are right...and...remember:
VERITATEM TEMPUS APERIT
@ Graham Somner: A new book! Wonderful news, wonderful news Master Graham, It will be mine!
My source wasn't the one you quoted I'll put it here when the drawing will be ready, and I'm not against the British Academic world...my sketches are only thoughts of an Architect knowing the Latin and of an old wargamer about Late Antiquity, I'm not an historian, I'm a reader and this thread for me is only like a talk using the sketches more than the wrods, nothing more.
What I was talking about was some kind of orthodoxy that is enveloping we all, not only the British Academy of course, I feel like a growing rigidity in the academic world everywhere...but this is only a personal feeling, nothing more.
And yes thank you very much about the Architecture in my sketch (even if the capitals are invented!)! But it's easy for me because I'm drawing Architectures for work from many years, as I said I'm an architect and working in Architecture in Italy means drawing ancient buildings for great part of your professional life, whatever you do in Italy you'll find always an ancient building ready to be destroied by some Italian Architect! :whistle:
