Is the dude in the bottom left throwing rocks? Never bring a rock to a javelin fight.
this post was submitted on 09 Mar 2025
37 points (100.0% liked)
Illustrations of history
1120 readers
94 users here now
This magazine is for sharing artwork of historical events, places, personages, etc. Scale models and the like also welcome!
Generally speaking, actual photos of a historical item should go to [email protected]
Photos of ruins should go to [email protected]
Photos of the past should go to [email protected]
founded 9 months ago
MODERATORS
A man only has so many javelins to throw! Funny enough, the Roman writer Vegetius suggests that throwing rocks by hand was a secondary skill that legionaries were trained in for various edge cases like this.