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Posted: 7/21/2016 7:39:56 PM EDT
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And to where would he ride?
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Posted: 7/23/2016 3:30:24 PM EDT
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And to where would he ride? Precisely. The movie "Centurion" is in no way historically accurate. (The famous "Legio IX Hispania disappearing in modern day Scotland" story is just that; a fictional story meant written by a children's author. The real 9th Legion was most likely disbanded and absorbed into other legions, which was fairly common.) |
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Posted: 7/25/2016 6:26:20 PM EDT
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Rome and it's empire certainly had its troubles, but there was no idyll to be found on the other side of the frontier. Rome offered a stability that could not be matched in the barbarian lands.
The situation wasn't much different from what we face in our country today. Our country sucks, but everywhere else sucks worse. |
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Posted: 8/10/2016 11:39:57 PM EDT
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A Centurion commanded 100-200 footsoldiers, a low ranking officer. Would it even be worth mentioning if one 'rode off' because he was dissatisfied with the government?
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Posted: 8/11/2016 3:41:04 PM EDT
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A Centurion commanded 100-200 footsoldiers, a low ranking officer. Would it even be worth mentioning if one 'rode off' because he was dissatisfied with the government? Good point. How often was a specific centurion mentioned in any capacity whatsoever? |
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Posted: 8/12/2016 12:31:21 AM EDT
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Good point. How often was a specific centurion mentioned in any capacity whatsoever? Quote HistoryQuoted:
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A Centurion commanded 100-200 footsoldiers, a low ranking officer. Would it even be worth mentioning if one 'rode off' because he was dissatisfied with the government? Good point. How often was a specific centurion mentioned in any capacity whatsoever? Horatius might have been a centurion; all we know is that he was a junior officer of unknown rank. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Horatius_Cocles |
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Posted: 8/12/2016 10:26:19 AM EDT
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Gaius Marcius Coriolanus. not a centurion but fits the OPs description rather well. He walked off into the sunset and then came back at the head of an army (one he recently helped beat in a war), almost sacked Rome, only stopped by the pleas of his wife, mother, and son.
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Posted: 8/12/2016 2:43:11 PM EDT
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Gaius Marcius Coriolanus. not a centurion but fits the OPs description rather well. He walked off into the sunset and then came back at the head of an army (one he recently helped beat in a war), almost sacked Rome, only stopped by the pleas of his wife, mother, and son. This guy? The point stands: the annals of history left little room for junior officers and those below them. |
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Posted: 8/28/2016 8:51:55 PM EDT
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Im listening to what seems to be a pretty good (8 part) series on Roman history that covers the beginning with Aeneas , Romulus & Reemus etc thru Empire. Something that has been nagging at me is if there are any stories of a centurion in the later years of the empire that seeing what Rome has become, he just rode off into the sunset instead of defending a corrupt government from the barbarians. Is there such an example? What are you listening to? |
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