Roman. Not Italian. It happened in Palestina, so the bloke was most likely NOT from the boot-shaped peninsula. And Italy didn't exist then, of course.

by Anonymous 2 years ago

I mean he could have been "Italian". He definitely wasnt Jewish; they were not down with Rome… really ever I think, but around and right after the time of Jesus there were a bunch of revolts against them.

by Anonymous 2 years ago

Yeah by this point, most Roman soldiery was a melting pot of a vast empire. Dude could easily have been Thracian or Iberian or Libyan.

by Anonymous 2 years ago

Ahhhh, my bad, must have been the Rome from Georgia then that the dude came from...

by Anonymous 2 years ago

Clearly the landmass existed, but Italy wasn't a country until a legal process began in 1815 and ended in 1861. At the time of Big J, Rome was the empire, but being an empire that spanned various countries, being Roman didn't mean you only came from the CityState of Rome.

by Anonymous 2 years ago

It's like he hasn't even seen Gladiator?!

by Anonymous 2 years ago

He is clearly not entertained!

by Anonymous 2 years ago

Still a non-zero chance that Rome had stationed ACTUAL Roman soldiers in an area highlighted as being a potential hotbed of civil unrest, at a time of civil unrest, to ensure peace or at least relay events back to the citystate of Rome. One of their jobs would most likely have been to ensure the prisoners were treated as required to show a Roman control. This would most effectively have been done by an actual Roman guard, from Rome. Not just a local who was born into the empire somewhere and handed the role by... Other locals who hated the Roman presence? Yeah, still a good chance the guard who thrust the spear was in fact from the place with the Parthenon...

by Anonymous 2 years ago

>still a good chance the guard who thrust the spear was in fact from the place with the Parthenon... Greek? I guess, yeah, but still Roman. Just like IRL... I'm from Northern Ireland, a part of the UK, but not Great Britain. However, my passport says my nationality is British. So that Greek, or Cyprian, or Turkish, or Syrian, or Egyptian (or rather, their home country name at the time) or wherever they came from, was still a Roman!

by Anonymous 2 years ago

You're playing dumb. Being Roman doesn't mean you are from Rome. It means you are a soldier (or citizen or whatever) of the Roman Empire. Know how empires work?

by Anonymous 2 years ago

Ohhhh!! Can I double down on being dumb then? So all of the Indians born in India between 1858 and 1947, as well as all of the other countries within that empire, were actually British? Or am I not being the dumb one now?

by Anonymous 2 years ago

Read my reply again. I said he was "soldier of the Roman Empire". I didn't say he was Roman. Indians born in the period you mentioned were born as citizens (if the status of citizenship applies) of the British Empire. But they were indeed Indians.

by Anonymous 2 years ago

Um, Roman armies came from across the empire. A large percentage - if not majority - were auxiliaries from outside Italy. A Roman soldier was as likely to be a German, Gaul, or African as an Italian.

by Anonymous 2 years ago

Maybe I'm being dumb, but what's the significance of this? Is there a widespread belief that he wasn't killed by the Romans?

by Anonymous 2 years ago

No there is widespread belief that although he was Jewish, he was killed BY the Jews. Also more the fact that when referring to Romans, as like some sort of mysterious ancient people's with their chariots and colloseum and togas, it's really just Italian people from ages ago.

by Anonymous 2 years ago

Roman empire was huge, a random legionnaire could be from anywhere between Spain to Mesopotamia. Italy was a province back then and the one you are referring to was established in 1861. Other than that nails are not the case of death during crucifixion, victims suffocate due to chest muscle fatigue.

by Anonymous 2 years ago