Fighting the Samnites made the Romans fully abandon the phalanx after the First Samnite War. They basically stole the Samnites gear as well.

Oooooh, do the Etruscans next! The 12 cities of the Rasna deserve more of a spotlight.

Used these in Rome 2: Total War, Rise of the Republic. *Laughs in Anti-Cavalry*

Theres no Rome without the Samnite wars and the effec those had on Rome. Nice to see they getting more attention

I didn’t know we had sources describing the Samnites in such detail. Thank you for sharing this!

I have you know that linen was cultivated in the region until early 20th century. Many had looms at home prior the second world world war. Only recently in modern times many with industrialization most of the old crafts have been abandoned. Each town specialized according to its location and presence in its territory of easily available materials be it agricultural or grazing the land to a particular crafts, terra cotta vases, leather, wood works, and metal. A variety of textile materials wear in use, wool, flax, hemp, burlap for agricultural produce and prior to unification even silk. In the Samnite period linen was more than possible. Obviously the elites not every one. One have to see Pietrabbondante with its temple theater and the recently discovered Domus Publica, residence of the Samnite high priest, and in Monte Vairano a cyclops walled city with paved street side walks and homes burned at the time of Sulla. Many archeological findings are from distant places of the Mediterranean basin. See Videos on you tube on Pietrabondante Archeologist La Regina and De Benedictis archeologist on Monte Vairano.

The shield description reminded me more of a medieval kite shield than of a Roman scutum.

Thank you for this vid, and your super professional, clear and detailed quality! You got yourself a subscriber!

Great video! I recently watched a video on the Samnite wars and couldn't find that much detail on them, keep it up!

Please make a video on the history of every Italic tribe.

Amazing video! I really love watching your stuff. ❤

Good timing. Researching this linen legion so appreciate it

First class video (once more!) on this elite unit!👍👍

Why would you go up to the guy with the knife, KNOWING the consequences, and still say no? There's no way you don't know what's gonna happen! You just saw the guy in front of you get stabbed!

Imagine being the guy who sees a large pile of corpses on the mustering field your first day on the job, and when your boss asks if you're going to be loyal you say "nah fam". I wonder how much of that story is Roman propaganda since we know the Romans were master propagandists.

Best one yet!

History is written by the victors. And what we know about things like the Linen legion is from their victorious enemies, like the Romans.

A book on them came out last year. I got it at time,just haven't got round to reading it. Published by pen and sword books. Think I'll start reading it today.

The shield description sounds like a triangle, or heater shield in the medieval style.

Nice one, very interesting I loce the part you put on glasses to read th quotes 8:52 btw its not scoot ium, scu tum, look at the mediation, hes pronounceation is perfect

Link to your sources please, not just to the main webpage.

The Sam Knights fighting Ghouls... oh my

interesting, i never heard of them

Assuming people basically stayed in one place until modernity, I am a Samnite as my people came from this part of Italy. I am glad that we stand among the many tribes and peoples of the world who eventually found civilization and escaped barbarity.

Reduced Chaffing sounds nice

well that is one way of recruiting soliders i suppose.

Great Video!!! But its Lino-tho-ra-x, not Linothrax. Λινό-Linen and θόραξ- chest.

Man, if i can find a way to get these in 28mm for hail Caesar then I’d be set!

How about the samnite gladiator

Linothorax pronunciation?

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Did the copy Legion Technology from Romans ?

Is this metatron channel?

That map is wrong the Carthaginian have colonies in Sicily

I swear every time I hear "linothrax" I'm close to getting an aneurism. This isn't a particularly difficult word to get right, and you said it a hundred times and didn't bother once reading it right. We still speak of the thorax in the medical profession. It's the chest. Finally, just because the "th" sound exists in English, doesn’t mean it exists in every language. The "th" is pronounced as a hard "t". Now let's try again: Linothorax.

But this "Legion" didn't help the Samnites to win against the Romans with high morale and thier Trojan ancestry.

Downvote for saying BCE instead of BC.

What a way to make me stop listening. There is an established form of dating but yeah not here, sad as it was good until they started with the "inclusive" dating method, immediately to my mind it then becomes not solid history and sometimes else. If you're going to use an alternative dating system make it your own piggybacking on the established is just weak.