More than anything it had to do with surprise and terror at the size of the beasts that unaccustomed foes felt when first seeing them. Otherwise the use of...
I wrote a paper on it in college, as did someone else in the group. ( who's paper sounded better than mine actually ) but basically for primaries you've got...
What I find strange is that even with the advent of Phyrrus and his war with Rome the Roman consular armies of the Second Punic War broke during the battle of...
Dia dhuit, I'll keep this brief, but I just joined, and just wanted to say hello. My brother and I will probably both be posting. We both study Celtic...
Hello and welcome to AT. Thnx for the introductory message. Feel free to post on whatever interests you, but since you're into Celts, I was recently reading a ...
... his ... broke ... You are forgeting a "minor" factor of the equation called Hannibal.. What I find strange is Hannibal holding such high opinion of ...
I saw the trailer of Troy with Brad Pitt recently. I have to say that nothing looks realistic, the weapons and armor are not bronze age but more like iron age...
The Romans first saw elephants at Heraclea and called them something like "Greek cows of Catania". By Ausculum they had developed the fire-charriots to scare...
My appologies for not replying sooner. Still haven't found/remeber the book I was talking about below but this site has a couple that might be of interest: ...
... I'm guessing Hannibal was also reffering to Pyrrhu's campaigns in Sicily which encountered some victories, but like in Italy, I believe he was finally...
Well obviously the historian of the movie had to work off the Illyad by Homer, thus the "1,000 ships" when plainly this is impossible, not even achieved in...
You can watch the trailer at: http://movies.yahoo.com/shop?d=hv&id=1808444810&cf=trailer We\ve talked about how some historians working in movies have to ...
... believe ... sources ... achieved ... Pyrrhus did quite well in Sicily defeating the Carthaghenians off of half the island that they occupied. When he...
Unfortunately Diodorus' continuous narrative (based on Hieronymos of Kardia) breaks off when Pyrrhos was only about 18. But you can still read Plutarch's...
Sometimes human ambition surpasses what is possible. Napoleon invaded Russia with some 550,000 to 600,000 troops in June and July 1812. The supply and...
The French armies from the late revolutionary period had 'lived on the country' - essentially they looted. Prior armies had mostly avoided this since the 30...
The Celtic armies of that time would have used the same large bodyshields as they did later. One of the main sword styles of that time was the wasp-shaped...
... bodyshields as they did later. One of the main sword styles of that time was the wasp-shaped mansword, also called anthropomorphic. From horseback, as I'm...
I've been lurking over this one, not being familiar enough with the argument to add anything useful, and I just thought I'd weigh in with a hearty thankyou for...
From it's inception Troy was seen as a mythical/fantasy love/war story, not a historical treatment. When creating the armour the costume designers only aim...
... ME - Apparently not so in the case of Troy. I'm told that Petersen left most of the details of the armour to legendary costume designer Bob Ringwood, who...
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... go ... Exactly. I know I'm going, despite my bitching. ... accurate, ... Thnx for the update on those. There's a Crusades project comming up? Riddley...
I agree with Miltos! But for the TROY movie the customes seems like US made TV series "Hercules". Pitty... the had a good chance to make a good movie and the...
... Hellenistic tactics. This is lost to us, but must have been bed side reading for Hannibal. Pyrrhus defeated Rome, and the peace terms after Asculum were...
Is Gates of Fire actually being produced?? I heard about three years ago in 8th grade and then heard no more about it. It sounded good...being on Thermopylae...
Yup, Ridley Scott has finally found backing for his crusades project, which will probably be called 'Kingdom of Heaven'. Weapons and armour are currently being...
Hey Glen; Do you know who's ordering the armor, maybe I can still get in on this? -Alastair ... From: Glenn To: AncientTactics@yahoogroups.com Sent: Wednesday,...
Where did you see this? Glenn <glennfaw@...> wrote:Yup, Ridley Scott has finally found backing for his crusades project, which will probably be called...
