The city of Rome was founded, not by the sons of Mars as myth would have it, but by the amalgamation of separate communities of the Palatine and Quirinal hills around 600 BC. From such humble beginnings grew a culture which, by the 1st Century AD, held dominion over much of Europe, North Africa and the Middle East. Caesar's legions were essential to the maintenance of these territories, and this book investigates the development and growth of the Roman fighting machine. The text explores the organization of the legions, as well as the motivation, the weapons, armor, equipment of the individual soldier.
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I just received a wonderful book on the Roman military. It is called "CAESAR'S LEGIONS: the Roman Soldier from 753 BC to 117 AD". There are loads of photographs and over a dozen color plates! This is written by Nicholas Sekunda, Simon Northwood, and Michael Simkins. There are 143 pages, 110 B&W photos, 37 line drawings, 4 maps and 24 color plates. The book is published by Osprey Books. Michael Simkins is a craftsman and historian who has many of his recreations of Roman armor on display in European museums and re-enactment groups. The book will be a great addition to the historian, reenactor and wargamer's library.
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Real informations about the most famous and formidable war apparatus of antiquity, the Roman Legion - Republican and Imperial periods as well - are scanty indeed. We know that this military organisation stood almost invincible for a millennium or so and yet we still ignore the actual manner it performed effective tactical mechanisms as its typical and sharply different deployements and formations changes (and even weaponry variations) according to enemy forces, battle ground and environment. The book tries to make the best use of the scanty - and often contrasting - historical sources and archaelogical evidence to give us an appreciable portrait of this ancient juggernaut in the course of its multifarious war experiences.
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Early Rome and the Romans were only one of a number of peoples and settlements in Iron Age Italy. Read the first page Key Phrases - Statistically Improbable Phrases (SIPs): (learn more)
manipular army, single greave, manipular tactics, manipular formation, cohors equitata, shoulder doubling, arming doublet, census rating, grave stele, true cavalry, hoplite tactics, hoplite shield, mail hauberk, four legions, body defence, ist century, iron helmets, complete equipment Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
Certosa Situla, Trajan's Column, British Museum, Domitius Ahenobarbus, Second Punic, Imperial Gallic, Aemilius Paulus, Imperial Italic, Long Windsor, Peter Connolly, Second Macedonian War, Hod Hill, Jugurthine War, Publius Scipio, Roman Hastati, Russell Robinson, Silius Italicus New!
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Early Rome and the Romans were only one of a number of peoples and settlements in Iron Age Italy. Read the first page Key Phrases - Statistically Improbable Phrases (SIPs): (learn more)
manipular army, single greave, manipular tactics, manipular formation, cohors equitata, shoulder doubling, arming doublet, census rating, grave stele, true cavalry, hoplite tactics, hoplite shield, mail hauberk, four legions, body defence, ist century, iron helmets, complete equipment Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
Certosa Situla, Trajan's Column, British Museum, Domitius Ahenobarbus, Second Punic, Imperial Gallic, Aemilius Paulus, Imperial Italic, Long Windsor, Peter Connolly, Second Macedonian War, Hod Hill, Jugurthine War, Publius Scipio, Roman Hastati, Russell Robinson, Silius Italicus New!
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- Roman Military Equipment: From The Punic Wars To The Fall Of Rome by M C Bishop and J C N Coulston on page 92
- Cato the Censor (Oxford Scholarly Classics) by Alan E. Astin on page 92
- The Roman Army (Arms of the Past) by Peter Connolly on page 136
- The Jewish War: Revised Edition (Penguin Classics) by Flavius Josephus on page 107
- The Roman Legions by H. M. D. Parker on page 93
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