LOL. I'm not even really sure. No introduction from....whoever that was. :D
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LOL. I'm not even really sure. No introduction from....whoever that was. :D
Went to her...his.... page and saw a long line of emptiness...
Jannge didn't like the term barbarian, so changed it to berserker.
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Is it me, or am I going to be standing in a combat position for the rest of the RP?
ADAM!!! RESPOND!!!
I think I did. Did I miss a post of yours?Quote:
Originally Posted by Montros
~John
Barbarian brings up an image of a damn Viking... Berserker just brings up Celtic woad warriors. Which aren't quite as cool.Quote:
Originally Posted by Holeypaladin
I'd rather be a Viking, personally.
Vikings are actually the ones who coined the term "berserker." They considered the state of berserk to be the ultimate spiritual embodiment of prowess on the battlefield, or something like that.
Oh, all right then, a Mongol. I'd rather be a cool-looking guy with a bloodstained axe and shield with many gashes in it.
Barbarians are awesome.
"Barbarian" was a name created by the greeks to call Cretans (SP), because they pillaged, sacked, raped, and practiced Canabalism. FYI.Quote:
Originally Posted by BrotherhoodUK
That is incorrect, Montros.
To describe it plainly, the term barbarian indicated any non-Greek civilization or culture. This then created the artificial viewpoint that the Grecians formed a superior culture while the Achaemenids of Persia, the Illyrian tribes and other foreign states were culturally inferior. This dichotomy of Grecian superiority and Persian inferiority is false. For example, the reign of Darius I 'the Great' marked the apogee of Achaemenid Persian hegemony with the maintenance of control over the eastern governates or satrapies and the defeat of the minor princes or princelings to the north. The Persians were a culturally rich and civilized power. While the concept of Oriental despotism or Asiatic tyranny is true to an extent, one must not forget the cosmopolitan decadence of the Grecians.
The Hellenistic Age was an era of Grecian avarice and political corruption as the city-states were placed under the hegemony of the mighty autocracies or absolute monarchies of the Hellenistic world. According to such, the Ancient Greeks were also barbarians due to their internecine conflicts and their fratricidal wars. It was Rome through her Mediterranean conquests that ended the period of Hellenistic decadence and Hellenistic prodigality which ushered in a new golden age of cultural effervescence that thrived during the Principate of Augustus Caesar and his immediate successors.
In the modern setting, the term barbarian refers to any individual who is vulgar, uncouth, unrefined and boisterous.