Roman Irony?

[Tiberius Martius]

Has anyone ever thought that maybe Roman reenacting is true irony, especially for those of us who are of Germanic origins? The fact being Germanic invasions were one of the key (not the only one of course) components of the empire's downfall? It brings up interesting questions.
It also brings up the discussion of what is a "Roman"? Can someone be a Gaul and a Roman at the same time? Interestingly the Romans probably had a much different concept of "nationality" then we have today in an empire that emcompassed hundreds of different "nations" today. Just something to think to about...
Tiberius Martius
Rob
"War is sweet..to those who have never experienced it."

[Jona Lendering]

Another delicious irony: the scholastics of the eleventh and twelfth centuries started to study ancient Greek and Latin texts employing scholarly tools that had been developed by the Muslim scribes, the ulama. E.g., sic et non is derived from the method called khilaf.

The ulama had developed these techniques in their struggle against the so-called Mutazilites, state-sponsored students of Greek and Roman texts.

So, the western scholastics studied classical texts with methods that were designed by people who wanted to get rid of these classical texts.

[Matt Lukes]

Quite so- but then one could make a similar argument about Christianity and the irony of those of us who are or were raised Christian portraying high-Empire personages.

[MARCvSVIBIvSMAvRINvS]

yeah pose that! in the Jesus discussion!

hehehehehe.

BTW i would like to see a large scale DNA investigation into Roman European Genes!

M.VIB.M.