01-08-2007, 06:25 AM
My Celtic friend tells me that he has read much data to suggest the Romans were mainly Celt. That the Romans thought the Celts to be taller,stronger fighters therefore took over the army. The Romans owe everything to the Celts from weaponry to soap! Only conceding the Romans to be great builders, due to their proximity to Greek culture though.
My premise is the opposite, Celts a little taller perhaps but looking at Caesars accounts and their battles it seems the Romans always built up their enemies just to tear them down. Think the Romans were probably as fierce as they come in hand to hand(reading many individual battles look like the Romans were the savages and the braver on many accounts) and just over extended themselves and eventually vanished into various population groups in time.
Also, I feel that too many others our overlooked, from Greece,Asia minor,Dacia to Africa. Did not these people enter the Roman Army, of course. He says the contrary, they were only few.
My premise I told him is that so much of Europe derived something from the Romans that they want to take complete claim. I say Asia minor,N.Africa was the place to be in that era: winters were cold and long. Why would anyone want to live in those conditions in that day? I would take Judea over any Celt land. Over course he says the Celts also had the best vessels to get you there, those of the Celts living off the European side of the English Channel.
I give up I say...Celts are the real (late)Romans.
My premise is the opposite, Celts a little taller perhaps but looking at Caesars accounts and their battles it seems the Romans always built up their enemies just to tear them down. Think the Romans were probably as fierce as they come in hand to hand(reading many individual battles look like the Romans were the savages and the braver on many accounts) and just over extended themselves and eventually vanished into various population groups in time.
Also, I feel that too many others our overlooked, from Greece,Asia minor,Dacia to Africa. Did not these people enter the Roman Army, of course. He says the contrary, they were only few.
My premise I told him is that so much of Europe derived something from the Romans that they want to take complete claim. I say Asia minor,N.Africa was the place to be in that era: winters were cold and long. Why would anyone want to live in those conditions in that day? I would take Judea over any Celt land. Over course he says the Celts also had the best vessels to get you there, those of the Celts living off the European side of the English Channel.
I give up I say...Celts are the real (late)Romans.
Ralph Varsity
