10-09-2001, 08:18 AM
I really like the proposal for an equipment section.<br>
A glossary approach is a nice and practical one: anyone clicking on an item will then find info. But I also like an historical organisation (i.e. by eras) where the equipment of an era is described. Once an era is consciously chosen, the person looks for the info he wishes. Some might say that the difference with a straight forward glossary approach is small and useless. Instead I think the tendency for specialisation has gone so far that many of us suffer from an acute loss of curiosity for what happened earlier or later than their pet period, be it that of the second Punic War, of Ceasar or Trajan's period. My hope is that a self-conscious person might admit that he/she knows little of another era. But besides the frequent readers of this forum and other roman army fanatics, we think also of the novice. This person would, in the historical approach, immediately see the various options to click on (the different eras) and learn, then and there, that the romans were around for a long time and they didn't always wear lorica segmentata and tunics.<br>
To stimulate a taste for wider pictures, and because I think it is the most useful to UNDERSTAND, I propose an historic approach. <p></p><i></i>
A glossary approach is a nice and practical one: anyone clicking on an item will then find info. But I also like an historical organisation (i.e. by eras) where the equipment of an era is described. Once an era is consciously chosen, the person looks for the info he wishes. Some might say that the difference with a straight forward glossary approach is small and useless. Instead I think the tendency for specialisation has gone so far that many of us suffer from an acute loss of curiosity for what happened earlier or later than their pet period, be it that of the second Punic War, of Ceasar or Trajan's period. My hope is that a self-conscious person might admit that he/she knows little of another era. But besides the frequent readers of this forum and other roman army fanatics, we think also of the novice. This person would, in the historical approach, immediately see the various options to click on (the different eras) and learn, then and there, that the romans were around for a long time and they didn't always wear lorica segmentata and tunics.<br>
To stimulate a taste for wider pictures, and because I think it is the most useful to UNDERSTAND, I propose an historic approach. <p></p><i></i>
Jeffery Wyss
"Si vos es non secui of solutio tunc vos es secui of preciptate."
"Si vos es non secui of solutio tunc vos es secui of preciptate."
