Arthur and the Romans

The significant quotation I picked out was "Arthur's Britons, unlike their modern counterparts, were the cultural heirs of two peoples: the Celts and the Romans. While neither group was homogenous or genetically a 'race', they did produce vigorous cultures which dominated the European Iron Age for over one thousand years." (Snyder, Ch. 1, Pg. 15) I found this quotation to be interesting because I believe we discussed last class that the Romans had pulled out of England by the time the movie took place in, and the idea of the Britons as their cultural heirs would seem to support that, as the term 'heirs' implies they are not the direct subjects of Roman rule. To me it just makes it sound like the Romans had no direct involvement in Arthurian legend, though the film would claim otherwise.

Source: Snyder, Christopher A. The world of King Arthur. Thames & Hudson, 2011.