Re: Roman Armor
I hear when you see in movies the romans always weiring red was also false becaus of the expense it took for the dye. Some people somewhere on these forums were talking about that.I thought it was interesting how Hollywood really doesn't seam to put any effort into authenticity
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In all fairness, they are in the business of making fantasy rather than documentaries. But I'll give you one often wishes they'd put a little more effort into the homework.
Then again, in good old days you had Spartacus fighting legionaries in leather segmentata...
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Actually, they just wear a Greek Spola, I think. In any case they did do their homework, most of the stuff we have now was found after 1970 and those films were in the 50's-60's, the bits they do get right are pretty exacting, such as the Imperial Italic helmets.
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Red may have something to do with the dress and desire of Aries, or was that Mars, as well as the internation colours of Necormongers United and all those born and bred to war?
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I think it was just an easily aquired due and hence cheap. Blue was another similarly popular one - it was more or less pure chance the Puritans' New Model Army ended up with red coats.
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Just like the Black Hessians?
Last edited by cmacq; 02-21-2008 at 02:12.
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How accurate is the HBO/BBC series ROME? I know it is fiction and highly entertaining (I recommend to anyone here) but how accurate were the roman soldiers uniforms portrayed?
Re: Roman Armor
AFAIK Red was one of the cheapest dyes if not THE cheapest, so it was quite common. Also, some dug-out rags of Roman clothing found somewhere in Germany (Mainz or Köln most likely) together with imperial time equipment (weapons, belt, imperial gallic style helmet) suggested that Red was a common color for Roman legionaire clothing.
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