Re: In which department were the 'Barbarians' undeveloped compared to the civilised?
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Originally Posted by cunctator
Human sacrifices in roman history were very rare and sporadic and finally prohibited by the senate 97 BC in all terrotories under roman rule.
Barbarian leaders were captured on campaign and shipped back to be ceremoniously slaughtered in Rome, Gauls and Iberians especially.
Re: In which department were the 'Barbarians' undeveloped compared to the civilised?
Is the slaying of captured enemies (even after parading them through the streets) the same thing as human sacrifice? ~:confused:
Re: In which department were the 'Barbarians' undeveloped compared to the civilised?
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Originally Posted by conon394
An interest thing that people forget is that Athens had at least two regional government levels (Athens may have only been one city but Attica certainly included several formerly independent towns: Marathon, Rhamnus, Eleusis etc.) and for the 4th century at least the additional supra structure of her second league and it’s synod as well.
I stand corrected. :bow:
Re: In which department were the 'Barbarians' undeveloped compared to the civilised?
I think we should be very careful when giving our opinion about civilized!
At least in those days you killed someone face to face.
Now We're sitting in bombers waiting to push a button that can kill thouzands in one blow.
Now what’s so civilized about that?
If you ask me mankind has never been civilized.
We just always thought we where.
ps: sry about my English.
Re: In which department were the 'Barbarians' undeveloped compared to the civilised?
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Originally Posted by Teleklos Archelaou
Is the slaying of captured enemies (even after parading them through the streets) the same thing as human sacrifice? ~:confused:
Not in my mind, unless they did it to honor a certain god...
Re: In which department were the 'Barbarians' undeveloped compared to the civilised?
Current politics have no place here. "Barbarian" was an ancient term with none of the connotations we give it today. What is clear is that we, modern people, have as a whole a misconception about who the "barbarians" were because the victors of conflicts labelled them as such. Bringing modern politics here was a bad idea. Next time I will delete such posts as trolling.