"Tarentine Horsemen of Magna Graecia Review" Topic

"If you found yourself on the southern coast of the Italian peninsula in the fourth century BCE then you might be forgiven for thinking yourself in Greek territory rather than Italic. By this time these coastal areas had many colonies founded by Greeks, so much so that the Romans called the area Magna Graecia, or Greater Greece. Taras was one of the most important of these colonies, situated in modern Apulia on the coast. The later fourth century and third centuries BCE saw the expansion of Roman control throughout the southern Italian peninsula, which inevitably meant a confrontation with Taras. Taras fought with the assistance of King Pyrrhus of Epirus, but in 272 BCE the city fell to the Romans and had its walls demolished. However a lasting legacy of the city was the famous Tarentine horsemen. These were light cavalry, skilled at using the javelin and highly valued for setting ambushes, as well as other light cavalry functions. Their fame meant they were widely used as mercenaries well away from their homeland, although later on it may well be that ‘Tarentine' described the style of javelin horsemen, even if they no longer actually originated from that colony…"

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Armand

Those are pretty cool, and have many uses in addition to what they are intended for. One of the coolest things about ancients; one can often ignore what the box title says they are supposed to represent, besides they are easily converted in that [articular medium.

Glad you like them my friend!.

Armand