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British Museum explores the personal tales of Roman soldiers in new blockbuster exhibition
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01/02/2024
London’s British Museum's latest exhibition invites visitors to step into the shoes of an ordinary Roman army soldier.
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"Legion, Life in the Roman Army" is an exhibition
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about the Roman army, but it's told
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from the perspective of ordinary Roman soldiers.
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So it's stepping away from the kind of big man history
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that we often get with Roman archaeology about emperors
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and great battles, and really focusing
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in on the personal stories of the soldiers who
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served in the army.
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So the exhibition brings together
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some of the most famous Roman military objects in the world,
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the only complete Roman scutum and the most complete
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Roman cuirass-- that's the type of body armor--
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to kind of really mundane leather tents that soldiers
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used, and tent pegs that they used, and board games
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that they played in forts.
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I mean, there has been a social media trend suggesting
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that men are obsessed with the Roman Empire.
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And I wonder whether there is a sense of masculinity
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and also the fall of that civilization precipitating
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what we now refer to as the Dark Ages that makes people think
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it was a height of civilization.
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But this exhibition also shows the good and bad sides
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of the Roman Empire.
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It shows the slavery.
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It shows the lack of hygiene.
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It shows all the problems with that time
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as well as the sort of heroic elements
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that people are more familiar with.
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