Junkelmann/Stroh vs Strategikon re Commands

[A_Volpe]

Very interesting, thanks.

Again, I hate to sound totallly oblivious, when was the Junkleman commands written?

I seem to get more questions than answers regarding the variations of these drills, which I can easily understand which increases the difficulty in establishing a standard set of commands. SIGH.

Anyways, my reference to the Strategikon being "oldest known Latin" comes from Matt Amt's/Leg. XX site (with apologies to Matt):

>"There is no surviving Roman marching drill from the first century, so most of ours is adapted from the Strategikon of Maurice. This was written in the 6th century AD, but is still the oldest known Latin drill. Other commands have been added to allow necessary actions like drawing swords, etc.--some of these have been adapted from the Ermine Street Guard's drill. Maurice's drill is strikingly similar to an obsolete Greek drill in Arrian's Tactical Manual, from the 2nd century AD."<

I haven't re-read the information on the top of [his] page for some time, so apparently I had only rememberd half of the information/detail of the reference, so my apologies to anyone I've confused. I greatly respect Matt and all his hard work, so I mean no disrespect [to him] or misleading any of you on what I had for reference.

...I have to take lots of chunks of information to use in my presentations, since I only have 30 minutes each program, with anyone from young, fidgety children to teenagers to Adults, so I simply cannot stand there and explain in explicit detail which is what and where it went. It's the Limited-Attention-Span factor and the Ooh-Pretty-Shiny-Armor factor. And I admit I forget specific details myself.