06-03-2012, 03:44 PM
Vindex is an interesting character.
Yes, the good old days when every revolt was considered to be nationalistic!
Another factor against this is the involvement of parts of Gaul - notably those from where I live, the Treveri), fought against him at Vesontio, before rising up themselves once they stood to be punished for siding with Nero by Galba and then by Vespasian - and the fact that there is no mention in the ancient sources about peculiar Gallic trappings, like an intervention of the druids.
Do you assume his case is related to stoic conspiracies against Nero (Piso, possibly Seneca) and under the Flavians (Paetus)?
Yes, the good old days when every revolt was considered to be nationalistic!
Another factor against this is the involvement of parts of Gaul - notably those from where I live, the Treveri), fought against him at Vesontio, before rising up themselves once they stood to be punished for siding with Nero by Galba and then by Vespasian - and the fact that there is no mention in the ancient sources about peculiar Gallic trappings, like an intervention of the druids.
Do you assume his case is related to stoic conspiracies against Nero (Piso, possibly Seneca) and under the Flavians (Paetus)?
M. Caecilius M.f. Maxentius - Max C.
Qui vincit non est victor nisi victus fatetur
- Q. Ennius, Annales, Frag. XXXI, 493
Secretary of the Ricciacus Frënn (http://www.ricciacus.lu/)
Qui vincit non est victor nisi victus fatetur
- Q. Ennius, Annales, Frag. XXXI, 493
Secretary of the Ricciacus Frënn (http://www.ricciacus.lu/)
