03-12-2018, 07:25 AM
(03-12-2018, 04:35 AM)dicappatore Wrote: I am curious of what is the purpose of the argument made about how many Wesen Rolek killed or attacked. if he killed one or 1000, not knowing the circumstances of the kills? What does it prove. IMO, Rolek's character served to get a second key to Nick and enhance more books and weapons to his collection. Also, Josh can become a Grimm in a future, possible spin-off series with Trubel. Remember, Josh is a lot younger than when Nick gets his Grimm. The Josh we got to know was not a Grimm but who knows what can happen years later. Look how old Nick was when he becomes one.Nice to hear from someone who knows their history.
The other fallacy is all this talk about Romans using slaves as soldiers and the Spartacus theory. FYI, Spartacus had an army of 100,000 plus. The fallacy about his army was that it was a Gladiator Army. In actuality, most of it was composed of poorly trained, in haste, domestic slaves. This is what happens when some get their history from Hollywood. The Romans were able to defeat other well trained and equipped armies, let alone a slave army.
Being born from an area not too far from the area where Spartacus was finally defeated in an all out battle against the Roman Army. Prior to this battle is was all about a cat and mouse game with small battles, between them. There is a book written by a local history professor about the town I was born in, which is in the same vicinity of Spartacus final battle.
If you look up the village "Senerchia" in Wikipedia;
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Senerchia
This is the town the professor is from. On this page there is a reference to "Spartacus". It mentioned the town I was born in, Olivet Citra, but grew up in another near-by town, Quaglietta, which is what the book is about.
The town I lived in dates back to the 1100 or 1200's. According to this local history professor, the town I am from, is down valley from where the final battle took place, hence, why this is mentioned in the book. According to his research, that final battle was another one of these battles where one side is decimated by the other side loosing very few in numbers.
According to his research, most of those slaves were not gladiators but domestic slaves, including lots of women. As for the few gladiators, they might have been excellent fighters but what made the Roman Legions so powerful was their equipment, tactics and formations they practiced. Their formations were lethal based on tactics and enhanced by their fighting equipment (armor, artillery) not just fighting talents
In that final battle, these factors resulted in great discrepancies between the casualties from both sides. This whole idea of vast slave armies during the Roman area is just one big BS. Just more opinions being presented as facts. Most Roman slaves were far from being gladiators. Most of them were domestic slaves and not trained in fighting skills.
Ask yourself, if you owned slaves against their will, would you have them trained in fighting skills? This idea is laughable. Most slaves were domestic slaves, farmers, cooks, servers, etc...
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kkgjiCKHvoY
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3iz1_UwD2Fw