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cybalist@yahoogroups.com, "Joao" <josimo70@...> wrote:
> Tuesday I saw the movie "King Arthur". In the introduction, it's
told that the movie was based on archeological findings. Is it true?
> In the movie, Round Table's knights were Sarmatian horse-riders
working for Rome. Arthur (Artorius) was a captain of Britton mother
and Roman father.
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> Joao SL
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"Is it true?" is a big question to ask about an at least
semimythical character.
One Lucius Artorius Castus (I believe a Roman himself) led a
Sarmatian cohort in Britain and has been suggested as the original
Arthur.
Bernard S. Bacharach "A History of the Alans in the West"
(1973) promotes the idea that Alan horseman were the predecessors of
Medieval knights. He has five or six pages comparing the Arthur
legend with various steppe (not necessarily Alan) ideas.
Interesting, but I don't find it conclusive.
At least someone in Hollywood has done his homework.
Dan Milton