Illustrations of history

460 readers

123 users here now

This magazine is for sharing artwork of historical events, places, personages, etc. Scale models and the like also welcome!

founded 3 months ago

MODERATORS

PugJesus

"[The Roman Legion's] drills are bloodless battles, and their battles bloody drills." - Flavius Josephus, contemporary Jewish-Roman scholar (lemmy.world)

submitted 5 days ago by PugJesus to c/historyillustrations

2 comments fedilink hide all child comments

you are viewing a single comment's thread
view the rest of the comments

[–] PugJesus 7 points 5 days ago

The Romans, funny enough, would put additional weights on their training equipment to make it heavier than the real deal, so the actual weaponry would feel like a breeze to handle, lmao.

permalink
fedilink
source
parent