In message <GIEJJJBKMCKOEJINNEKDMEKKCCAA.simon.miller_at_...> "Simon Miller" writes:
>Donald; thanks- I just found the relevant section in ILH 1...
>
>I think it will take me a while to accept it; I've never felt easy with
>Roman titles used with the Lunar Empire (especially the bits I think of as
>Greek), and the Greek titles (polemarch) seem to be applied to Dara Happan
>stuff which I thought would have a more eastern flavour.
I think of the Lunars being a thin veneer of Roman over a Greek base
(the Dara Happens) with the Carmenians bringing in a Persian flavour.
I keep expecting to see a legion style unit with scimitars and pila
but they haven't appeared yet.
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Donald Oddy
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