10-18-2005, 03:14 PM
Quote:Though off-topic I found it curious that the account mentions being attacked by "sea monsters" rather than fish, unless the terms are interchangable. One thing that has alway intrigued me is that although most Roman "monsters" are very naive half-animal half fish or half-human kinds of things, their favorite sea monster, the Ketos, looks uncannily like a real prehistoric plesiosaur, (or the popular conception of the Loch Ness monster). This same, distinctly reptilian sea creature is seen in art from classical Greece to the end of the Roman Empire, including the decoration of Roman military equipment.How about the great white shark?
Robert Vermaat
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FECTIO Late Romans
THE CAUSE OF WAR MUST BE JUST
(Maurikios-Strategikon, book VIII.2: Maxim 12)
MODERATOR
FECTIO Late Romans
THE CAUSE OF WAR MUST BE JUST
(Maurikios-Strategikon, book VIII.2: Maxim 12)
