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Dave Slaney
Invertebrate
United Kingdom
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 Posted - 29 August 2007 : 3:38:41 PM
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Right then. I’m really torn here, the Eagle books are all about giving our British ancestors a right good bashing and from how they sound in the series so far, they sound like they deserve all they get. However I do feel that I should be against the Romans as they were the ones who invaded us.
Now I’m hoping there’ll be many more in the Eagle series to come, but I would love a future series to focus on Macro rising through the ranks to be Centurion and giving the Hun a good thrashing. Now they were scary buggers! I always think of that big sod in ‘Gladiator’ holding the severed head and taunting the Legions.
I know it’s hard to backtrack after you’ve developed such great characters that we all love, but it’s just a thought.
By the way, after reading ‘Under The Eagle’ and i don’t think they’ve been mentioned again until now (in ‘The Eagle and The Wolves’), I wondered what a faggot was. They were lit, then thrown over the fort walls to deter the enemy from scaling the defences. Initially I had visions of a huge flaming meatball being thrown over the ramparts!
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Parmenion
Homosapien
United Kingdom
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Posted - 29 August 2007 : 4:35:01 PM
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nothing wrong with a prequel...
The early life of Macro,where he is like cato and where he has his own mentor!!
would make for a great book!!what do you say simon?? any plans down the line for a prequel??
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John Prigent
Homosapien
United Kingdom
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Posted - 29 August 2007 : 4:44:03 PM
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A faggot was simply a bundle of wood tied together. Usually fairly large.
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Coritanian
Homosapien
United Kingdom
2031 Posts |
Posted - 29 August 2007 : 5:47:38 PM
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The invasion of Britain was a worthy major event in Roman history for the eagle books to start from, but my average knowledge of the subject doesn't recall anything good happening legion-wise before this until the 3 lost legions in Germania, which was about 35 years before the Eagles events. As much as I'd like to read Macro's backstory, nothing really interesting happened when he joined the Legions. If I'm wrong, please correct me.
Incidentally, faggot has another meaning too. Is it politically incorrect to set fire to a large group of gay men and send them running towards the enemy ?!
So when the centurion and those with him, who were guarding Jesus, saw the earthquake and the things that had happened, they feared greatly, saying, “Truly this was the Son of God!”
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WILL C
Single Cell Organism
United Kingdom
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Posted - 02 September 2007 : 11:59:13 PM
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Bat King
Invertebrate
United Kingdom
169 Posts |
Posted - 04 September 2007 : 2:33:02 PM
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Of course the Huns were not in any territory neighbouring Rome for another hundred odd years.
I thought I wrote a post about them fitrst being mentioned by Ptolemy somewhere near the Sarmatians in 139. Certainly the Sarmations were with Atilla in the 5th Century. |
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Justin Coles
Small mammal
United Kingdom
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Posted - 05 September 2007 : 8:25:31 PM
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The big guy in Gladiator with the head was in fact from a germanic tribe, and nothing to do with 'the hun' as in Atilla. The Hun tribes came from the stepps - North Central Asia area. They defeated the germanic tribes, the Slavs, the Franks and the Romans and settled mainly in Hungaria. That was two centuries or more after Marcus Aurelias' Germanic Campaign though.
I've never really understood the use of the 'the hun' as a name for people of german origin - as they were a seperate people all together.
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Vertical_Dangler
Single Cell Organism
United Kingdom
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Posted - 05 September 2007 : 8:42:36 PM
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Speaking of Huns.. William Napier is writing a series of books about the man himself.Well worth a read.... (obviously not as good as Mr Scarrows tho.. backtrackbacktrack)
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Parmenion
Homosapien
United Kingdom
14676 Posts |
Posted - 05 September 2007 : 9:47:24 PM
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book 2 of that series was no where near as good as the first...its almost like a different series...he went too mystical
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AndyCanty
Homosapien
United Kingdom
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Posted - 05 September 2007 : 9:49:35 PM
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yep, i'd echo that sentiment, i actually gave up at the point through book 2, which really disappointed me as i like book 1.
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Vertical_Dangler
Single Cell Organism
United Kingdom
28 Posts |
Posted - 05 September 2007 : 11:30:25 PM
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Boo... haven`t got round to reading it yet :-(
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Sextus
Single Cell Organism
Australia
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Posted - 06 September 2007 : 03:35:56 AM
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I think he is referring to the Germanic people as "the Hun" you may know thatGermany during to WWI was refereed as “the Hun” considering they were seen as a scourge that destroyed all in it’s path just as the Huns did during the 5th Century AD.
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Ankhsy
Homosapien
United Kingdom
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Posted - 06 September 2007 : 1:00:35 PM
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I believe that nickname "Hun" to describe the German military arose as a result of German intervention in the Chinese Boxer Rebellion (1900?). In his speech to the German troops, Kaiser Wilhelm II told them to 'behave like the Huns of old' (or something to that effect). So it appears the Germans first used it as a reference to their own army.
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Bat King
Invertebrate
United Kingdom
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Posted - 10 September 2007 : 4:02:00 PM
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Indeed, the Germans did refer to themselves as Huns before we did. Or rather as being 'like' Huns.
Actually got popularised in WWI here.
But I don't think Macro will have fought any of the Huns - the guys from the Steppes or the guys who were involved in Boxer Rebellion or WWI n WWII. Unless Macro makes a surprise guest appearance over in Alex's third novel... |
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DESI
Single Cell Organism
USA
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Posted - 20 September 2007 : 05:12:40 AM
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Oh the Huns were MONSTERS!
I would very much like to see them get slaughtered and bashed by our favorite characters!
That would certainly be a treat!
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DESI
Single Cell Organism
USA
39 Posts |
Posted - 20 September 2007 : 05:18:20 AM
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I thought the Huns don't really have definite descendants.
For all we know, I could be part Hun!
If they are Germans, I take back all the horrible things I said about them. |
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Bat King
Invertebrate
United Kingdom
169 Posts |
Posted - 20 September 2007 : 08:25:22 AM
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Oh they definately have descendents... Probably all over Europe and parts off Asia. And due to migration... probably a lot in the USA.
Several ethnic groups claim to be descended from them - the Germans are not one, they just borrowed the name for the Boxer Rebellion and it stuck for a while.
Hungary has some people claiming to be ethnic Huns. But the place name itself has other origins.
Afghanistan actually have some tribes of possibly Mongol or Hun ancestry.
But Attilla's Hun Horde was not one ethnic group. The Huns were the ruling class and there were other ethnic groups among them. Sarmatians being one - if you saw the King Arthur film starring Clive Owen and Keira Knightley the Sarmatians were featured heavily in that. |
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AndyCanty
Homosapien
United Kingdom
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Posted - 20 September 2007 : 09:43:26 AM
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I thought we were all part descended from Ghengis Khan as he owned most of the known world in his time??
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