Timeline for Did the Romans have winter uniforms?
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| Dec 17, 2014 at 15:38 | comment | added | Michael | What about Roman soldiers guarding frontiers in the winters between active campaigns? Like in this poem: | |
| Dec 26, 2013 at 4:47 | comment | added | Michael | poemhunter.com/poem/roman-wall-blues-2 :-) | |
| S Feb 4, 2013 at 19:00 | history | suggested | Martin Schröder | CC BY-SA 3.0 |
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| Feb 1, 2013 at 19:42 | vote | accept | Felix Goldberg | ||
| Feb 1, 2013 at 7:01 | comment | added | jwenting | they were considered demi-gods, sons of Jupiter. Hence anyone threatening the gods threatened the power of the emperor, and with it the legitimacy of the empire. | |
| Feb 1, 2013 at 6:12 | comment | added | Anixx | Roman state never relied on the divinity of their rulers, lol. "Divus" means "god-like", not "god". No emperor ever was called "Deus" ("god"). | |
| Jan 31, 2013 at 16:31 | comment | added | jwenting | yes, I seriously doubt that. In fact I seriously doubt any quality drawings (let alone photographs) of Roman troops from that era survive, what LARP players wear AFAIK is more akin to what troops in the late eastern empire had, from which more was preserved. | |
| Jan 31, 2013 at 15:30 | comment | added | T.E.D.♦ | Generally a good answer (so +1), but I highly doubt those pictures you saw were taken conteporaniously. :-) | |
| Jan 31, 2013 at 11:09 | comment | added | jwenting | history books we used in school I think. Having been taught Latin we probably had more history on the Romans than most people get :) Quick search turned up romanarmy.net/coldweather.htm though which has information similar to what I remember from 25-30 years ago. | |
| Jan 31, 2013 at 9:29 | comment | added | Felix Goldberg | Where did you see those pictures? I want to see them too! | |
| Jan 31, 2013 at 7:24 | history | answered | jwenting | CC BY-SA 3.0 |