The Book of the Sword
As the so-termed founding of Rome took place during the early Iron Age of Southern Europe, it is probable that the citizens, like their predecessors the Etruscans, originally made their blades of copper and bronze, the leaf-shape being borrowed from the Greeks, as we see it retained by the gladiators. The material would last into the Age of Steel, but even in her early years Rome must have preferred the harder metal. Pliny expressly tells us that Porsena, after his short-lived conquest, prohibited the future masters of the world from using iron except in agriculture... -from Chapter XII: The Sword in Ancient Rome; The Legion and th…
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- ISBN: 978-1-60520-436-9
- EAN: 9781605204369
- Produktnummer: 5692551
- Verlag: Cosimo Classics
- Sprache: Englisch
- Erscheinungsjahr: 2008
- Seitenangabe: 340 S.
- Masse: H22.9 cm x B15.2 cm x D2.0 cm 523 g
- Abbildungen: Paperback
- Gewicht: 523
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