Posted on 10/10/2022 11:05:17 AM PDT by SunkenCiv
[AP, so no excerpt]
(Excerpt) Read more at msn.com ...
https://www.discovermagazine.com/the-sciences/the-hierarchy-of-the-1-200-year-long-roman-empire
https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/world/flavia-sabora-lost-roman-town-is-rediscovered-under-a-crop-field-in-spain/ar-AA12HTw0
https://menafn.com/1104955024/Prince-Hassan-Attends-Frontiers-Of-The-Roman-Empire-Book-Launch
https://www.amazon.com/Frontiers-Roman-Empire-Economic-Ancient/dp/0801857856
https://www.amazon.com/Frontiers-Imperial-Rome-David-Breeze/dp/1848844271
Wow, with "excerpt" NOT checked, it required an auto-excerpt -- but its source is AP, so I clicked "excerpt", and it all went to plan. :^) No excerpt, but there are a ton of pictures and a long article that can't be posted here, but are available in loads of other places.
If it’s the ROMAN era, wouldn’t it be a ROMAN festival? Can’t say I’ve ever used the the term “Romanian”.
Let’s see them reenact the battle of Teutoburg Forest
Present day Romania was part of the Roman Empire. Dacia.
The Roman empire created Romania as a place for Roman soldiers to retire.
All they had to do was eliminate all the people occupying that land and re-settle it in their image...
Meanwhile, New York State's new gun law is causing New York historical associations to CANCEL their Revolutionary War re-enactments lest the re-enactors be charged and imprisoned. You don't see that crap in Romania.
Muskets down! NY history buffs nix reenactments over new gun law
Then you have the Romanian history teacher: 
And American teachers: 
Which would you want teaching your kids?
https://www.britannica.com/biography/Arminius
[snip] Arminius became involved in war with Maroboduus, king of the Marcomanni, and though successful he was subsequently murdered by his own people. [/snip]
There was a Roman price on his head, Rome’s reach was long, Arminius was revived as a cultural icon when the German state needed some supporting myth. A monument was built in the wrong place, commemorating people absorbed or exterminated by the ancestors of modern Germans, or some intervening coat of paint.
It’s a Romanian festival because it’s in Romania.
Yup. It wasn’t a Dacian festival either. :^)
Tacitus writes that after the battle Caesar Augustus was heard screaming in his chambers “Arminius, give me back my legions.”
"Quinctilius Varus, , give me back my legions!"
And the epigram at Thermopylae doesn't end with "the Athenians never came," either.
They would have to give Augustus back his Legions.
:^) The conquest of Dacia took place during the reign of Trajan, a rootin’ tootin’ ass-kicker, it’s really too bad he didn’t live longer. His adopted son and successor, the pedophile Hadrian, had to be talked out of withdrawal from Dacia after those years of fighting and huge payday for Rome.
But they weren’t eliminated. The Romans mixed with the locals, so current Romanians are descended from both Romans and Dacians. So they honor both groups.
Thank goodness. Get a few pints of the local liquor in you and all hell breaks loose.
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