11-11-2010, 09:59 AM
:roll: :lol: so now just Bastarnae fight there? Man, your obsession with this peoples is huge. There is no such thing as only Bastarnae fighting there. We already discuss that, and clearly Dacians are depicted too. There is no Falx like blade ever related with Bastarnae, not archeologicaly or by the Romans themselves, but this is obviously the case when we talk about Dacians.
About the shieldless and unarmoured falx wielders, we had this discussion too. We know that romans depicted the enemies (on the Column for ex.) without wearing their armour (with only exception of Sarmatian cavalry, when their armour style was diferent enough to not be confused) to not confuse the viewers (mostly untrained civilians) and to show the roman superiority too, probably. But we know that Dacians used armours on quite important scale (and diferent armours are shown on Column among the trophies), and is logical to assume that Dacians armed with Falxes wear an armour too.
It is just a myth and an oversimplistic and silly thing to believe that they was some half naked barbarians runing around with some agricultural tools in their hands. Maybe this was the case in some instances (mostly with Germanic, i think Celts wear some armour too, not sure how spread it was) but not in this case, with Dacians.
About the shieldless and unarmoured falx wielders, we had this discussion too. We know that romans depicted the enemies (on the Column for ex.) without wearing their armour (with only exception of Sarmatian cavalry, when their armour style was diferent enough to not be confused) to not confuse the viewers (mostly untrained civilians) and to show the roman superiority too, probably. But we know that Dacians used armours on quite important scale (and diferent armours are shown on Column among the trophies), and is logical to assume that Dacians armed with Falxes wear an armour too.
It is just a myth and an oversimplistic and silly thing to believe that they was some half naked barbarians runing around with some agricultural tools in their hands. Maybe this was the case in some instances (mostly with Germanic, i think Celts wear some armour too, not sure how spread it was) but not in this case, with Dacians.
Razvan A.
