Rome

ziggy_encaoua · Post by **ziggy_encaoua** » Thu Jul 12, 2007 11:10 pm

Well its back on telly & there's a lot of guys not wearing trousers

Anybody been watching

knickerless · Post by **knickerless** » Fri Jul 13, 2007 1:28 pm

watching what?

Departed Member · Post by **Departed Member** » Fri Jul 13, 2007 3:22 pm

Didn't the Romans say that any bloke wearing tr*users was a Barbarian? There's still too many blokes on that programme wearing tr*users to be historically accurate, methinks!

ziggy_encaoua · Post by **ziggy_encaoua** » Fri Jul 13, 2007 7:09 pm

knickerless wrote:watching what?

http://www.hbo.com/rome/

Topsy · Post by **Topsy** » Fri Jul 13, 2007 8:13 pm

& http://www.bbc.co.uk/drama/rome/

ziggy_encaoua · Post by **ziggy_encaoua** » Fri Jul 13, 2007 9:50 pm

merlin wrote:Didn't the Romans say that any bloke wearing tr*users was a Barbarian?

I heard they thought anybody who wore trousers was a wuss...not far wrong

ChristopherJ · Post by **ChristopherJ** » Fri Jul 13, 2007 11:01 pm

Didn't the Romans say that any bloke wearing tr*users was a Barbarian?

Yes they did. Funny enough, I read the exact quote last week. Romans only regarded skirts as civilised wear - they took the form of tunics or short skirts. All men wore them - the toga was more a ceremonial thing.

So the quote was a "put down" on the barbarity of some of the peoples that the Romans had conquered - i.e. "Look how uncivilised they are - they even wear trousers"!

True, even today . . .

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