{"id":106466,"date":"2022-06-11T23:05:26","date_gmt":"2022-06-11T21:05:26","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/imperiumromanum.pl\/?post_type=ciekawostki&p=106466"},"modified":"2022-06-11T23:05:26","modified_gmt":"2022-06-11T21:05:26","slug":"children-of-legionaries-in-camp","status":"publish","type":"ciekawostki","link":"https:\/\/imperiumromanum.pl\/en\/curiosities\/children-of-legionaries-in-camp\/","title":{"rendered":"Children of legionaries in camp"},"content":{"rendered":"

Even though at the beginning of the empire, Roman legionaries<\/a> were not officially allowed to marry, they not only started a family, but they also did not keep it very secret. <\/p>\n

In 2013, in the Vindolanda legion<\/a> camp<\/a> (northern England), professor Elizabeth Green came across 10 cm long shoes<\/b>, exactly imitating the style of adult footwear<\/a> (approx. 4,000 pieces). Such shoes were put on children only during official celebrations, parades or holidays. The legionaries used public opportunities to boast about their – theoretically illegal – offspring.<\/p>\n

It is also worth mentioning here that Caligula<\/a> is one of the few emperors<\/a> we rarely know by real name. Germanicus<\/a> as a leader more often stayed in military camps than at home. Therefore, his wife and son often accompanied him in his life as a soldier. And there, to the delight of the legions, he dressed little Gaius in military clothes<\/a> and put on his sandals. His nickname was born: Caligae<\/a><\/em>. This is nothing but the name of the sandals worn by legionaries. we can also translate it as “shoe”. The “shoe” was regarded as the mascot of the army<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"featured_media":40181,"template":"","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"kategorie_ciekawostek":[77],"class_list":["post-106466","ciekawostki","type-ciekawostki","status-publish","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","kategorie_ciekawostek-unknown-facts"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/imperiumromanum.pl\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/ciekawostki\/106466","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/imperiumromanum.pl\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/ciekawostki"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/imperiumromanum.pl\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/ciekawostki"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/imperiumromanum.pl\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/ciekawostki\/106466\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/imperiumromanum.pl\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/40181"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/imperiumromanum.pl\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=106466"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"kategorie_ciekawostek","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/imperiumromanum.pl\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/kategorie_ciekawostek?post=106466"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}