My Reenactment days
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So I have arrived. One of the tasks for the kids is to navigate ("walk") to the Principiaof the fort and find Gaieus.
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Well, Alan, that was obviously not necessary to write out at those times. However the kids soon spotted it out as "anachronistic"
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Dear Gaieus,
I just have spent a very refreshing while to watch all about your reenactment camp.
The I. Lugio hastánc fesztivál offers to the child wonderful activities in peace, joy and dream.
I'm sure many of them will still think of you in years.
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Gaieus, Pardon my ignorance of European history, but how does a Hungarian come to reenact a Roman? I thought all those fellows were Italians?
My part of the world is a melting pot to the extent that I know of no native pure bloods as of the last three generations, and as I recall 1/20 may be enough to qualify as one. My own ethnicity is an oriental mix, but I am 99% Western cultruarated (if there is such a word):-) 4-5 nights a week I dress in a white kimono (like) outfit, and reenact a martial arts of my roots
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Hdt, there are Roman re-enactments throughout the whole of Europe, including the UK. Those guys got around. They weren't all Roman, by any means. We have evidence here in Britain of Hadrian's Wall, Londinium, Deva (Chester) being manned by troops from all over the Empire...including present-day Hungary, Spain, North Africa and various parts of the Middle East. Many of them married into the local population and stayed on after the collapse of the Empire. Everywhere's a melting-pot to some extent.
Here's a partly reconstructed Roman fort in N.E. UK. Re-enactments often take place in this kind of setting.
...and a British re-enactment society, The Ermine Street Guard.
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The English were the first westerners to discover the "Sandwich Isles", but by no stretch of historic process are we exposed to Roman culture, however once a year there are those that joust, along side the Eastern horse back archers.
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Well, you can also put it this way. who is a Roman - say in the 2nd century BC? Hardly anyone outside the city of Roma and all the "rest" of the population of Italy (Greeks, Etruscans, Umbrians whatnot) are only "allies" (socii).
2-3 centuries later yes, all the population of Italy is considered "Roman" and there are the provinces (like Britannia where Alan is from or Pannonia where I am from). The population (and the military unit garrisoning where these things happen yearly) got the Roman citizenship from Septimius Severus who actually became the emperor because as the Governor of Pannonia (Superior), he was the closest to Rome after Commodus died (you know, that crazy guy from the movie "Gladiator"). Finally, his son granted Roman citizenship to (almost) all free inhabitants of the Empire.
From that time on, the military unit was called Cohors VII Breucorum Civium Romanorum Equitata (i.e. Roman Citizens). BTW several units recruited from this Celtic tribe garrisoned in Britannia, as well.
This portrait of Marcus Aurelius was also found here:
BTW my home town is listed among the UNESCO World Heritage because of our Late Roman (Early Christian) cemetery here: http://www.h2g2.hu/peregrinus/gb/3.html (watch the whole website though, there are incredible 3D reconstructions especially in the Spanish sites)
So who is an American? Who holds a US passport. The same with Rome.
Ah, and I have finally uploaded a couple of images of the first day of the re-enactment days (including the opening ceremony) to Picasa: http://picasaweb.google.hu/csaba.pozsarko/Lugio2009#
But we have Celts here, too. Don't ask me why if we are not on the British Isles.
And we also got some demonstration about the Eastern mounted archers (more exactly she is a girl here - notice that she is NOT using a saddle which was of course not true while in a battle but kids learnt to ride without a saddle first according to our Medieval chronicles)
So basically it's a great fun to be there every year but also the kids learn a lot there. -
Until today, Roman Empire wasn’t conquered...!
It is detailed presented in Revelation book, especially in chapter 17.
Cornel -
Thank you for the historical insight, Cornel. I'm sure the inhabitants of Constantinople will be greatly relieved.
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