Re:Was there PTSD in the ancient or medieval world?
by baud147258 on Monday April 27, 2020 @10:37AM
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> [The battle of Teutoburg Forest] was used again and again to forge German identity
Interestingly, the defeat of Vercingetorix was also used as a mean of forging the French identity, so even a defeat can be used this way (though if Caesar had failed to invade Gaul, history might have been quite different too). Also in regard of using Teutoburg to build a national identity, the series on the Fremen Mirage [0] on the same blog talk about that idea too.
Interestingly, the defeat of Vercingetorix was also used as a mean of forging the French identity, so even a defeat can be used this way (though if Caesar had failed to invade Gaul, history might have been quite different too). Also in regard of using Teutoburg to build a national identity, the series on the Fremen Mirage [0] on the same blog talk about that idea too.
[0] https://acoup.blog/2020/01/17/collections-the-fremen-mirage-...