03-11-2006, 12:29 AM
Quote:I had that confusion just a few days ago when checking something out online....and found that 'Samaria' and 'Samatia' were encompassed into one empire that stretched from Israel to somewhere on the Great Wall of China that Alexander had visited (did he go to China tooQuote:As I recall they auriliaries in Judea were Samaritans rather than Jews and therefore there was a lot of animosityPlease not the difference between Samaritans and Samarians. Samarians are people from the city of Samaria, who had Roman citizenship and were also called Sebastiani; Samaritans are members of a religious community. (Cf. Roman Catholics, who are not necessarily living in Rome.)
[url:3u0ro2az]http://www.livius.org/saa-san/samaria/samaritans.htm[/url]
[url:3u0ro2az]http://www.livius.org/saa-san/samaria/samarians.htm[/url]
hock: ) and the auxiliary cavalry in Jerusalem must have been Sarmatians as they were mentioned in the New Testament - :lol: :lol: regards
Artjes
Cristina
The Hoplite Association
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The enemy is less likely to get wind of an advance of cavalry, if the orders for march were passed from mouth to mouth rather than announced by voice of herald, or public notice. Xenophon
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The Hoplite Association
[url:n2diviuq]http://www.hoplites.org[/url]
The enemy is less likely to get wind of an advance of cavalry, if the orders for march were passed from mouth to mouth rather than announced by voice of herald, or public notice. Xenophon
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