ochoin | 05 Feb 2016 4:18 a.m. PST |
Picts. One of my favourite puns runs with St Columba's conversion of them: "from sun worshippers to son worshippers." |
Frederick | 05 Feb 2016 5:52 a.m. PST |
Celts, Celts, Celts And – no disrespect – but Persians in my mind are not a barbarian army |
Mute Bystander | 05 Feb 2016 6:20 a.m. PST |
+1 Frederick, though the current residents… |
Who asked this joker | 05 Feb 2016 6:38 a.m. PST |
Persians are not Barbarians…period! BTW, this poll could have been done in one round. |
79thPA | 05 Feb 2016 7:09 a.m. PST |
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Generalstoner49 | 05 Feb 2016 7:55 a.m. PST |
Love the Dacians. They were my first ancients army! |
Patrick Sexton | 05 Feb 2016 8:26 a.m. PST |
Persians were definitely not barbarians in either the Greek or Roman eras. |
darthfozzywig | 05 Feb 2016 8:51 a.m. PST |
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darthfozzywig | 05 Feb 2016 8:52 a.m. PST |
70thPA beat me to it, by Crom. |
Deucey | 05 Feb 2016 9:02 a.m. PST |
Some of these choices are redundant. Any non-Greek speaker is a "barbarian." Romans were honorary Greeks. |
piper909 | 05 Feb 2016 11:10 a.m. PST |
Yeah, what's with these oddball classifications and redundancies? Celts, Gauls, Britons, Picts, Caledonians are separate? (Keep the last four maybe, but then delete the first.) (Where Picts and Caledonians really that much different?) "Germans" are all lumped together, mainly, except when they're not. Persians are "barbarians?" Me so puzzled. |
rmaker | 05 Feb 2016 12:06 p.m. PST |
Persians were definitely not barbarians in either the Greek or Roman eras. Did they speak Greek? Latin? No? Then they're barbarians. Now, the lack of Numidians and Egyptians is definitely puzzling. |
miniMo | 05 Feb 2016 12:10 p.m. PST |
Surprisingly, Persians are the definitive barbaroi. Celts are the definitive keltoi. The ancient Greeks used barbaros to describe overly civilised soft cultures: Persians and Egyptians. Keltoi are just 'others'. But for what's primarily under disussion in this poll, Celtic is a language group, not a monolithic culture and single army type. Give me the Britons with lots of chariots and a fair amount of light horse over the others anyday ^,^ |
DisasterWargamer | 05 Feb 2016 5:47 p.m. PST |
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skippy0001 | 06 Feb 2016 8:17 a.m. PST |
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DWilliams | 07 Feb 2016 12:50 p.m. PST |
The winners have to be the guys with the most colorful plaid pants! |