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Late Imperial Roman General
This miniature didn't immediately strike me as Late Imperial Roman – his chest armour and his vine staff look much earlier. I had to check with Foundry he wasn't an exile from their Early Imperial Roman range. The figure does appear in the John Lambshead Fall of the West – the excellent Warhammer Ancient Battles supplement focussing on the last 126 years of the Roman Empire. So this Late Imperial Roman figure is dressed as someone from much earlier antiquity. His hair is curly in the style of statues, and his helmet may even be a Theban/Corinthian design. He's one of those Romans yearning for a return to earlier times, when Romans were Romans and Emperors ruled wisely and justly. It was a very Roman trait, mistaking the past for a golden age unspoilt by moral decay and decadence. Livy expressed this sentiment centuries earlier in his preface to The History of Rome. The subjects to which I would ask each of my readers to devote his earnest attention are these – the life and morals of the community; the men and the qualities by which through domestic policy and foreign war dominion was won and extended. Then as the standard of morality gradually lowers, let him follow the decay of the national character, observing how at first it slowly sinks, then slips downward more and more rapidly, and finally begins to plunge into headlong ruin, until he reaches these days, in which we can bear neither our diseases nor their remedies. www.ninjabread.co.uk
Posted: 3 Aug 2017
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