The Odyssey (2026)
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DickTrickle
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Caliane
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god I hate hollywood fake generic leather "medieval" armor. leather wrist wraps for no reason.
there are period armors that were cool as hell. memorable as hell. Bright. colorful.
they don't do this shit to Japan, and Samurai armor.
Ancient Greek Armors - Hellenic Armors
The ancient Greek civilization is historically identified with the heroic era of Humanity. No other people in antiquity showed such an intense and continuous military activity as the ancient Greeks. The idealized model of heroic life and death deeply marked every aspect of society and its...
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I remember my dad took me as a kid to the Houston History Museum one year when they had gotten a massive display of medieval arms and armor that was floating around from Europe. It was a huge collection, and he knew I liked that stuff. I know a lot of it was ceremonial, but I remember it being pretty amazing. Want to say that was back in the late '80s or very early 90s.
If I had to pick a movie that did really awesome armor, specifically plate mail, it would probably be Excalibur.
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Sheriff Cad
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Aside from her balloon implants and other obvious plastic surgery, but I guess casting natural actors/actresses for period pieces would be tough.
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Haus
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please brush up. The “west” was highly critical of Byzantium (and vice versa) for much of their mutual existence. They used each other from time to time but mostly it was war.
the popes and the west bent over backwards to plaint them as “not real Ancient Greeks” or “fallen Greeks” and steal the legacy for themselves.
Meanwhile those Greeks never stopped studying and teaching their own history and stories going back to Homer.
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Siliconemelons
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Christianity is for all the world, we are all given the ability to follow Christ.
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Bald Brah
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Look up the actual history. The Romans gave us Christianity after they wiped Jerusalem off the map. The new Testament is nothing but Roman Sol Invictus written on top of the exterminatus of the hebrews and their religion.
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Ok lets try it this way. The Greeks gave Democracy to places outside of western Europe too. So I guess that makes Greek civilization x,y,z civilization too right?
Stop trying to claim Greece for western Europe. It is its own thing and has remained culturally distinct from west Europe/the Latins since ancient times until this very day.
Stop trying to claim Greece for western Europe. It is its own thing and has remained culturally distinct from west Europe/the Latins since ancient times until this very day.
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Big Phoenix
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Greeks where 100% western/European.
For simple fact they didn't practice polygamy (phillip being the outlier) like every other culture outside of Europe.
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What evidence is there that the Eastern Roman Empire thought themselves Greek and not, say, Roman?
They didn't use the name Byzantine; that was a later creation. At the peak of the Roman Empire, the Greek language would have still been the most common or second most common language in the empire, that doesn't mean they were Greek.
No culture survives being conquered for hundreds of years (outside of maybe the extremely insular Jews, and even that is debatable). There is going to be enough influence to cause cultural drift. Ancient Greek culture died when Rome conquered them. Then Eastern Roman culture died when the Turks conquered them.
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