How accurate are these two shows? I've been watching quite a bit of them recently and i've been quite impressed. Would like to know how correc they are though, so may I be enlightened?
Spirit Cleric
Ancient Discoveries & Weaponology
How accurate are these two shows? I've been watching quite a bit of them recently and i've been quite impressed. Would like to know how correc they are though, so may I be enlightened?
hoi polloi
Re: Ancient Discoveries & Weaponology
Hmm I've watched neither show - but similar at least ancient ones...
So sight unseen I would say reasonably, although of course TV often airs the most ridiculous stuff.
What you can probably assume especially for ancient, medieval military history is that their are radically diffrent opinions one can fine exposed by professional academics about whatever you just saw, and that the details are being glossed over.
Case in point - I just was flipping around and settled a show on I believe on the miltary channel (but I think the show was originally a discovery/history channel production) that was a roman ram recreation vs a wall so I had something to watch while I tried retrofitting an old storm windows into my house.
The things that stuck me a commitment to no cast iron by Rome - debatable, but more importantly why assume a ram is only wrought iron iron why not a cast bronze affair with a iron sheath? Also since the context was Masada no time was given to the fact that while a ram might work in sieges that involve only a few isolated zealots but the typical reaction was to build a wall inside the attacked point and simply allow the attackers to charge into a death trap...
Last edited by conon394; October 13, 2009 at 05:05 PM.
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