04-20-2008, 06:16 PM
Well, in all honesty, I don't see a problem with the Romans having been to the Americas. Maybe they did.
When people think of Romans going to the Americas they always think of official military expeditions with colonisation and conquering in mind, the conquest of Britain being an example. People never consider other kinds of roman presence in the americas, even accidental.
Is there seriously anything wrong with supposing a small fleet or even one single trireme got caught in a storm near England, Hispania/Lusitania and so forth and may have got way off course and drifted all the way over here?
One single trireme could explain a lot of these ''supposed finds'' such as pottery, gold, coins, etc. Eventually they mingled with the natives and the roman blood got watered down. It is a possibility. I don't think any of them ever returned though, or we would have our ''reports'' and ''sources''.
When people think of Romans going to the Americas they always think of official military expeditions with colonisation and conquering in mind, the conquest of Britain being an example. People never consider other kinds of roman presence in the americas, even accidental.
Is there seriously anything wrong with supposing a small fleet or even one single trireme got caught in a storm near England, Hispania/Lusitania and so forth and may have got way off course and drifted all the way over here?
One single trireme could explain a lot of these ''supposed finds'' such as pottery, gold, coins, etc. Eventually they mingled with the natives and the roman blood got watered down. It is a possibility. I don't think any of them ever returned though, or we would have our ''reports'' and ''sources''.
