Eagles Of Rome Read Online

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The reason the eagle is pictured with the whip is to ask you one simple question. If my eagles are fair reproductions, do you think it is possible I might know something about making accurate reproductions? You might not. If that slight possibility exists, cut me some slack and finish reading this page before you decide.

For 26 years I have been making a living producing a variety of expensive reproductions for the interior design and gift markets. My reproductions of a Roman flagrum are not only much more affordable. They are my most accurate reproductions to date. Believe it or not, designing an accurate reproduction of a Roman scourging whip is much harder than making a remote control eagle (which appears so lifelike they have fooled audiences into believe they were watching a real eagle up on stage).

These whips are not intended for just looking at in some museum. The sharp glass and nails embedded in the acorn size, lead tips are meant to be felt. If seeing a picture is worth a thousand words, touching the sharp glass, nails and jagged sheep bone speaks volumes. Most people (including Christians) who have heard about Jesus being scourged are shocked when they see these whips up close. In my seven years of researching Roman whips I am apparently the only one in the world who makes a TESTABLE/DEMONSTRABLE reproduction of a Roman flagrum that can be swung by a 12 year old girl and still do all the horrific damage the ancient secular historians describe.

If you have done even a little study on Roman scourging whips you already know the Romans did NOT call their whips a cat of nine tails. The Latin word they used is flagrum. Flagellum is the English derivative. Even though most Christians refer to a Roman whip as a Cat of Nine Tails, a real British Cat O Nine Tails is like a toy in comparison. I have only referred to my reproductions as a Roman cat of nine tails in the title because that is the ONLY way most folks know to search for a Roman flagrum!

I quickly learned the biggest problem in replicating an accurate Roman whip is that archeologists have NEVER found one! Not even one! Being the skeptic that I am, I did not believe the archeologist who first explained to me why it is unlikely that a genuine Roman whip will ever be found. After years of searching, I have yet to find one and have to admit he knew what he was talking about. The primary reason seems to boil down to the fact that nothing on the whip could survive 2000 years because of the natural deterioration process (except maybe a little lead or glass).

I wish I did not have to tell you ALL of the Roman flagrum reproductions, drawings and movie props I researched, turned out to be pitiful failures when duplicated and put to a simple test on a cardboard box! After each failure I learned one more way NOT to build a Roman flagrum. I know hundreds of ways NOT to build a Roman flagrum. My failures eventually started paying off as I discovered a few ideas that did work and after about four years I finally started to make some fair whip reproductions.

#1. All Roman scourging whips had either glass, nails or jagged sheep bone embedded in various size lead tips (the cutting tips need to be embedded into at least acorn size lead tips in order to do the kind of damage described in the historical record). If my reproductions lack authenticity, it is because I use only a minimum of nails, glass or sheep bone in each lead tip. The minimum is shocking enough.

Look closely at the picture of the 6 ml construction plastic with just one lash on it. Sometimes a picture is NOT worth 1000 wordsbut I hope it helps you get a better grasp of why the scourged victims would quickly tell the Romans anything they wanted to hear. A Roman flagrum has been mistakenly referred to as a Cat o Nine Tails for so long, it is a surprise to most Pastors that a British cat o nine tails will NOT cut through 6 ml plastic no matter how many times you hit it! If you doubt me, buy one and try it!

PLEASE CONSIDER: If you have ever seen a movie of someone being flogged by a short handled (cat O nine tails type whip) they always use ONE hand (usually their right because most people are right handed). You notice they swing the whip about as hard as they can right? Now imagine a typical right handed lictor on the other side trying to swing the same kind of whip with his left hand! That is ridiculous! It will not work! (ever try to throw a baseball with your left hand if you are right handed?) The Romans would have to have a left handed guy on duty all the time in order to do a scourging the way they usually did it! This problem is easily solved if you make the whip handle longer so it can be swung like a baseball bat. My reproductions are held with both hands, they can be swung right handed or left handed.

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I hope you can believe it when I tell you the holes in the plastic look more like a swipe from a grizzly bear than a domestic cat. I said that because most contemporary Christians don.t realize a British cat o nine tails WAS SO NAMED BECAUSE the scratches they made on human skin looked much like a DOMESTIC cat scratch. British Navy cat o nine tails have NO metal or bone cutting tips. British accounts tell us that some criminals took over 100 lashes all over their bodies from a Cat O Nine Tails and still survived (perhaps the usual bucket of salt water they threw on them after the flogging helped to disinfect the wounds).

I have given you the basic facts about Roman scourging whips so that now you understand why my demonstrable reproductions look different than the drawing we have all seen. This description is just the condensed version. If you have any questions or are still skeptical about anything, the least you could do is copy this and send it to a pastor/priest/professor/or an archeologist you trust? They have probably never seen a testable Roman flagrum before. They will probably appreciate seeing the pictures of something they had only read about (most of the information will not be new to them).

COPYWRITE NOTE: EACH OF MY WHIPS ARE PROTECTED BY COPYWRITE LAWS SO THAT OTHER WHIP MANUFACTURERS CANNOT COPY MY ORIGINAL DESIGNS AND PRETEND THEY CAME UP WITH THEM. I do not mind if an individual copies this design for their own personal use, but it is illegal for any manufacturer to copy my 3, 9, or 12 strap flagrum designs. The main reason I have to copywrite all of my reproductions is to keep the copycats from stealing my designs, and then try to stop me from marketing my own design!

In this course, The Eagle of the Ninth Online Book Club for Teens, we will read through the book The Eagle of the Ninth by Rosemary Sutcliff. As we are reading, we will go on rabbit trails of discovery into history, Roman life, math, nature, and more. We will find ways to learn by experiencing parts of the book through hands-on activities.

This online literary guide has everything you need to study the book. This course includes vocabulary, grammar, discussion questions, rabbit trails, and a writing project. It is perfect for a month of high school level literature.

We will go on rabbit trails of discovery. We will hop off the traditional roads of literature studies and meander down paths about pop-culture, history, biographies, poetry, music and more. We will take deep dives into some of the subjects touched on in the book and broaden our minds with new adventures.

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