02-22-2007, 02:43 PM
Quote: I am really quite skinny (runners, ya know :? ) and small and now that I think about it, I wouldn't be a very convincing Amazon warrior anyway.
You are probably going to look more realistic than 6' tall blokes with beer bellies and a modern haircut :-) Warrior Princess". Herodotus describes the Scythians not recognising them as women until they examined the bodies of those they killed, which I feel is more believable for anyone dressed for battle.
I think Davis-Kimball's evidence from Pokrovka for female Sauromatian and Sarmatian warriors is pretty interesting. Aparently the Sassanians had female members of the Savaran cavalry C3rd-7thAD, who could be also be commanders. Wagner says 5% of continental 'Celtic' female burials contained practical weapons and the Law of the Innocents was passed in Ireland in 697AD forbidding women to fight because it was common.
Quote:Still, I am sorry that there aren't more women reenactment groups.Absolutely. My group supports female members who wish to display as soldiers and I think it is a very good thing:
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A member of Comitatus Late Roman Historical Re-enactment Group
My Re-enactment Journal
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