01-18-2021, 10:26 PM
Thanks Brucius,
Being a reasonable javelin-thrower from my school days (6 years dedication!); the pictures said it all for me! Perhaps I'll get to read it sometime, but I suspect you've pretty much conclusively (more than) suggested that the Romans threw plumbata in almost exactly the same way that they threw pila for the previous 500+ years!
It could make you wonder why anyone ever thought it was any other way...... :-)
Being a reasonable javelin-thrower from my school days (6 years dedication!); the pictures said it all for me! Perhaps I'll get to read it sometime, but I suspect you've pretty much conclusively (more than) suggested that the Romans threw plumbata in almost exactly the same way that they threw pila for the previous 500+ years!
It could make you wonder why anyone ever thought it was any other way...... :-)