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KonskyKkt [2022-04-20 09:04:30 +0000 UTC]
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MetinYeniPasa [2020-04-17 01:18:49 +0000 UTC]
A cowardly act
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AMELIANVS [2014-11-08 13:59:41 +0000 UTC]
Not bad and with mostly accurate gear and dress of this time(although belt straps were likely not used anymore at this point and already by early 2nd century they were much shorter than during 1st century-at least preserved art suggest so).
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VoteDave In reply to AMELIANVS [2015-10-14 10:24:14 +0000 UTC]
Thanks. Since drawing this I have actually done a lot more in-depth research into the arms and armour of the early Third Century legions, so if I were to redraw this, the Praetorian would probably be dressed in scale armour without any belt straps. Though I might still put some of the Western legions in Lorica Segmentata, and the Eastern legions in chain mail. I actually have a reference drawing I've done for a project I'm working on about the rise of Elagabalus, that I may upload. I've also tweaked my facial design for Caracalla.
I've just had a look at the work in your gallery too. Very nice! Always a pleasure to meet fellow aficionados of Roman history.
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SylvanSmith [2011-02-19 14:04:51 +0000 UTC]
XD. Great pic. That is what Caracalla gets for killing his own brother. Emperors never lasted very long, and after Caracalla they had even shorter reigns until Constantine.
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VoteDave In reply to SylvanSmith [2011-03-18 16:50:48 +0000 UTC]
Thanks!
Yes, being a Third Century Emperor wasn't the safest position, was it!! By Caracalla's era, the glory days of Augustus and Trajan were long gone!
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SylvanSmith In reply to VoteDave [2011-03-19 00:40:52 +0000 UTC]
Even by the time of Marcus Aurelius things were not in the best of shape. There were brigands everywhere, with many Barbarians eager to chip away at Roman territory (which is the Roman's fault because they were the ones who bribed them and coaxed them with riches which they became accustomed too). In Marcus's time only 2% of the Roman army was Italian. Wow. It was almost half in the Days of Augustus.
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AMELIANVS In reply to SylvanSmith [2014-11-10 14:47:16 +0000 UTC]
Majority of recruits were not of Italic origin at that time but they were still the Romans.Also note that for more ancient Romans also rest the Tribes of Italian peninsula were not considered as Romans by them at all.They all only get this Roman citizenship rights much much later(often using weapons to gain it)in the very same process as all other later added territories were also given full citizen rights.
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SylvanSmith In reply to AMELIANVS [2014-11-11 04:15:38 +0000 UTC]
I think you are referring to the Social wars.
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Chaosfive-55 [2010-08-29 22:07:10 +0000 UTC]
He died as he lived...pissing on the world! Good riddance to a particularly murderous, odious tyrant.
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VoteDave In reply to Chaosfive-55 [2010-09-02 20:18:20 +0000 UTC]
Very poetic! I rather like that!
He was indeed one of the worst of the emperors (and that's saying something given the competition!!)
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Chaosfive-55 In reply to VoteDave [2010-09-02 21:36:51 +0000 UTC]
Unless it was Number Two...eww, don't draw that version!
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PoisonRemedy [2010-08-29 21:33:20 +0000 UTC]
On another tack, nice scene-setting and excellent posing.
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VoteDave In reply to PoisonRemedy [2010-09-02 20:16:49 +0000 UTC]
Thank you, Mr C! It has been a while, has it not? I have had an extended absence from DeviantArt this last year (as you probably saw), but I am now back!
How are things with you, old boy?
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PoisonRemedy In reply to VoteDave [2010-09-02 21:04:57 +0000 UTC]
They are very good thank you sir! Set up in Cambridge working as an art tech, yourself?
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VoteDave In reply to PoisonRemedy [2010-09-06 20:42:08 +0000 UTC]
Yes, life is good, thank you. Still residing in Cardiff and I currently work for a company funded by the Welsh Assembly Government (unfortunately my company policy states that I cannot state the name on the internet! Paranoid, or what?).
Also, I'm getting married next year to my Welsh lady friend.
It seems we are all grown up; ah, to be students again...
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VoteDave In reply to PoisonRemedy [2010-09-15 21:24:06 +0000 UTC]
Uh oh! You know too much...
I wonder what ever became of said ginger guy.
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PoisonRemedy [2010-08-29 21:32:50 +0000 UTC]
See this, this is why I wait till the public conveniences appear. That and the poor douchebag in Friday the 13th who gets impaled with a tent spike while he's answering a call of nature.
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