I actually don't know for sure, just wanted to say that :P, maybe the red was something like battlefield heraldry to help distinquish friend from foe.
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I actually don't know for sure, just wanted to say that :P, maybe the red was something like battlefield heraldry to help distinquish friend from foe.
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Then that would be uniformalism, surely.
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that makes sense, as that is the primary function of a uniform....Originally Posted by Rilder
anyway, you have to admit that the shields were at least the same basic shape/materials
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at least we can be quite sure, that their shields were not read, decorated with white painting called "COCA COLVM"
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lol. I think instead they read "Manishewitz Red Wine"
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I imagine the sheild type will be the same for marians onward but the decoration will vary form soldier to soldier.
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You also must consider cost of shield decoration. The poorer classes would have fairly basic shields with cheaper colors/paints/simpler designs while the more affluent would have more decorated arms and armor. Since everything they had was pretty pimped out. There really isn't any argument against showing off who they were on the biggest and most visible surface.
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Re: Shields?
actually Romans dissapproved of shield-painting altogether at least until the early principate.
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So no "Gaius Corvus slept with you mum" enblazing you shield in 3 different languages huh?
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Hehe..
So, the Romani did begin to paint their shields red after Marius? Which is where the legionary as we know him is born in all his forms, colours and all?
Interesting.
Why, then, are the Polybian Principes and Triarrii red? Is this actually inaccurate? Or was it to show a gentle change from Camillan to Marian?
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how did you come across that?
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the most famous bit of literary evidence perhaps is Scipio's dressing down of a soldier in spain for presenting a 'highly decorated' shield.
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