10-31-2018, 12:38 AM
A legitimate question with a rational answer.
Please though, try not to use a reproduction as an example to illustrate your idea if an artifact is available.
A point should be made that fashion does play a role in what military things look like then as now. Everyone wants to look like a winner and nobody wants to look like a loser on the battlefield. Romans generals are depicted as semi-Greeks for a very long time, ironically after they defeated or absorbed every Hellenistic Greek kingdom they encountered this trend seemed to accelerate.
Please though, try not to use a reproduction as an example to illustrate your idea if an artifact is available.
A point should be made that fashion does play a role in what military things look like then as now. Everyone wants to look like a winner and nobody wants to look like a loser on the battlefield. Romans generals are depicted as semi-Greeks for a very long time, ironically after they defeated or absorbed every Hellenistic Greek kingdom they encountered this trend seemed to accelerate.
Joe Balmos
