>>18338126They were not far racially removed from Germans. And the war was a territorial one, the most natural sort of war between two very strong and very healthy peoples.
Unlike Carthage or Asia, Greeks and Romans, settled Aryan peoples in later stages, did not look upon the northern barbarian with disdain and disgust. Sure, they might have loathed their lack of civilization, but there are Greek and Egyptian writings of the Scythians and Roman writings of the Scythians and Germans that make it abundantly clear that they respected the wild, adventurous spirit of the northmen. The Greeks considered the Scythians to be pioneers of a new type of civilization, and the Romans thought the Germans were powerful in their tribal nomad ways.
Not only this, but the Greeks considered the Scythians racial cousins, and the Germans were tall and beautiful to the Romans. The Romans would intentionally don blonde wigs and of course the tall and powerful Germans were units in the Roman wehrmacht.
The Romans looked with disgust at the stagnant Asian or the Semitic Carthaginian, peoples not fit for civilization.
