Now we finally have our post-colonial debate: in the next two Sundays Terra-X shows the struggle for Germania. The Battle of the Teutoburg forest is as likely as usual entertaining processed with cuts faster than sound, dizzying camera movements and excited about running extras hordes. Furthermore - and the homeopathic information content - nobody wants to complain: this is television as it is often successful. And sometimes it's fun, too.
But the FAZ, it has now complained bitterly on its media page the features section, that the film presents the Romans as brutal occupiers who fall stupidly in spite of superiority in the woods to make the slaughter of "primitive" of the Germans, the otherwise small Because his agrarian life carries on. Because we feel on the part of the Terra-X approaches such as a lawsuit against the former colonial occupier? For what have the Romans ever done for us? The aqueduct? Oh please .... this is hardly more than an antiquarian Contaminated site, a residual carious former size, obstructs our best land. The Roman law? Well good, maybe this: although one or the other would the Germanic form of the like better over-persuasion . But otherwise? Perhaps then yes times, a broad debate about the guilt of the Romans in the bloody history of Europe due - including demands for economic aid.
Maybe not: after all, it all ended in a very successful version of the maxim "If you can not beat 'em, join' em", which the Roman Empire has finally blown out the light.
Oh by the way - by Sophia McDougall there Romanitas , a sometimes tried novel about a world in which the Roman Empire, the unwashed primitives has successfully pacified. No Dark Ages America and only a province ....
