Monday, December 28, 2020
Treatment of Hostile Barbarians
Bryan Ward-Perkins, The Fall of Rome and the End of Civiization (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2006), pp. 26-27:
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2.3 The right way to treat hostile barbarians, as shown on the column of Marcus Aurelius in Rome (built at the end of the second century AD). Above, captured males are being beheaded, apparently by fellow prisoners acting under duress; below, a woman and child are being led into slavery—while behind them another woman prisoner is stabbed in the chest by a Roman soldier.2.4 'The Return of Good Times' (Fel. Temp. Reparatio), as imagined on a fourth-century coin: a Roman soldier spears a diminutive barbarian horseman.
