Roman Military Artwork as Propaganda on the
... rests upon a sacrificial pit that contained ox bones.10 The mausoleum at Adamclisi was similar to the one described by Suetonius in De Vita Caesarum, which the Roman army built in honor of Nero Claudius Drusus, the younger brother of the Emperor Tiberius.11 In 1971, an archaeological excavation atte ...
... rests upon a sacrificial pit that contained ox bones.10 The mausoleum at Adamclisi was similar to the one described by Suetonius in De Vita Caesarum, which the Roman army built in honor of Nero Claudius Drusus, the younger brother of the Emperor Tiberius.11 In 1971, an archaeological excavation atte ...
Caligula: Madness or Genius?
... senators. At the same time, Caligula’s wife and daughter were also killed. The reasons given for his murder ranged from humiliating the Roman army to ignoring the will of the Senate. The final question that has to be answered is whether or not his actions were those of someone who suffered from insa ...
... senators. At the same time, Caligula’s wife and daughter were also killed. The reasons given for his murder ranged from humiliating the Roman army to ignoring the will of the Senate. The final question that has to be answered is whether or not his actions were those of someone who suffered from insa ...
Some Elements of Centrally Planned Economy in the Late Antiquity?
... burdened with obligation. The status of guildsmen could vary: form rank-and-file workers to owners of facilities. And again, we shall ask, to what extent pistores were subdued to the government? Of course, they were free people27. Technically speaking, obligation wasn’t personal but patrimonial. But ...
... burdened with obligation. The status of guildsmen could vary: form rank-and-file workers to owners of facilities. And again, we shall ask, to what extent pistores were subdued to the government? Of course, they were free people27. Technically speaking, obligation wasn’t personal but patrimonial. But ...
Septimius Severus (193–211 AD): Founder of the Severan Dynasty
... valuable metals like bronze or copper. This meant that he could mint more coins with the same amount of silver, but each of those coins quickly became less valuable, causing inflation. No Roman emperor since Nero had so debased the currency, and this would eventually have serious repercussions, espe ...
... valuable metals like bronze or copper. This meant that he could mint more coins with the same amount of silver, but each of those coins quickly became less valuable, causing inflation. No Roman emperor since Nero had so debased the currency, and this would eventually have serious repercussions, espe ...
government`s instability, and may have been inspired by
... The Crisis Ends: Diocletian (284-305 AD) The man who would be known to history as the Emperor Diocletian was born as Diocles to a peasant family in the Balkans. He worked his way up the ranks of the military, and when the Emperor Numerius was murdered in 284 AD, the soldiers proclaimed Diocles emper ...
... The Crisis Ends: Diocletian (284-305 AD) The man who would be known to history as the Emperor Diocletian was born as Diocles to a peasant family in the Balkans. He worked his way up the ranks of the military, and when the Emperor Numerius was murdered in 284 AD, the soldiers proclaimed Diocles emper ...
Fighting for the Empire: Military Morale in the Fourth
... Rome and its Army in the Fourth Century: An Overview An army is not a solitary institution born out of the ether. The military and the society it swears to protect are interrelated; the attitude of one reflects the attitude of the other, since both form responses based upon reactions to the shared ...
... Rome and its Army in the Fourth Century: An Overview An army is not a solitary institution born out of the ether. The military and the society it swears to protect are interrelated; the attitude of one reflects the attitude of the other, since both form responses based upon reactions to the shared ...
Stupid Wars - CAFE SYSTEM CANARIAS
... Pax Romana in a circus of hacked-off limbs. By the fourth century AD, the primary job of the Roman emperor was to maintain and defend the empire from the hordes of barbarians clamoring at the gates. But by now the real power of the emperor lay with the imperial guard, the cohort of soldiers who prot ...
... Pax Romana in a circus of hacked-off limbs. By the fourth century AD, the primary job of the Roman emperor was to maintain and defend the empire from the hordes of barbarians clamoring at the gates. But by now the real power of the emperor lay with the imperial guard, the cohort of soldiers who prot ...
Wong Ruth Roman Research Paper - 2010
... When Marius was a consul, he saw the changes that needed to be made in the army, and worked on it. The first thing he changed was the way soldiers were recruited. He wanted more soldiers than what the senate had authorized (Dillon et al. 448), so he moved away from the traditional way of recruiting ...
... When Marius was a consul, he saw the changes that needed to be made in the army, and worked on it. The first thing he changed was the way soldiers were recruited. He wanted more soldiers than what the senate had authorized (Dillon et al. 448), so he moved away from the traditional way of recruiting ...
Fernando Quesada Sanz “Not so different: individual
... typical those used by of a dual-purpose infantry, capable of using both close and open order tactics closely similar to those employed by Hellenistic thureophoroi. This panoply was based on a heavy throwing weapon -pilum, soliferreum or heavy throwing spear-, a main thrusting spear and a short thrus ...
... typical those used by of a dual-purpose infantry, capable of using both close and open order tactics closely similar to those employed by Hellenistic thureophoroi. This panoply was based on a heavy throwing weapon -pilum, soliferreum or heavy throwing spear-, a main thrusting spear and a short thrus ...
The Manipular formation used by Republican Roman Armies More
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Kochom.thesis
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Palmyra and the Roman East - Greek, Roman, and Byzantine Studies
... Victoria.4 The issues are more complicated, involving the cultural and political identities of Rome's eastern subjects and their attitudes and relations with the ruling central government. 5 Most studies simply fail to reconcile their conclusions with the many expressions of Palmyrene authori ty tha ...
... Victoria.4 The issues are more complicated, involving the cultural and political identities of Rome's eastern subjects and their attitudes and relations with the ruling central government. 5 Most studies simply fail to reconcile their conclusions with the many expressions of Palmyrene authori ty tha ...
The Roman Army as a Factor of Romanisation in the North
... pre-Roman origin, mostly Geto-Dacian. In the southern part of the frontier, there was a concentration of place-names ending in dava, characteristic of the Geto-Dacian hill-forts, indicating that the Roman army on its arrival in this region found a lot of local tribes dwelling in fortified sites acco ...
... pre-Roman origin, mostly Geto-Dacian. In the southern part of the frontier, there was a concentration of place-names ending in dava, characteristic of the Geto-Dacian hill-forts, indicating that the Roman army on its arrival in this region found a lot of local tribes dwelling in fortified sites acco ...
Early ImpErIal romE 27 BC to 117 aD
... auxiliaries and legionaries in the Roman army during this period. Augustus was also responsible for the formation of the Praetorian Guard, though the tradition of veteran legionaries forming the special bodyguard of Roman generals dated back centuries. No special rules have been applied to Praetoria ...
... auxiliaries and legionaries in the Roman army during this period. Augustus was also responsible for the formation of the Praetorian Guard, though the tradition of veteran legionaries forming the special bodyguard of Roman generals dated back centuries. No special rules have been applied to Praetoria ...
Roman Soldiers Relationships in the Frontier (a bibliographic Essay)
... denied when viewed in relation to the abundance of epigraphic evidence attesting to it; however questions arise whether this was an attempt by the family to legitimize children from the relationship. Children born out of soldiers’ marriages provide an interesting study with the understanding that Ro ...
... denied when viewed in relation to the abundance of epigraphic evidence attesting to it; however questions arise whether this was an attempt by the family to legitimize children from the relationship. Children born out of soldiers’ marriages provide an interesting study with the understanding that Ro ...
Historia - Roman Army Talk
... 22 Gladius hispaniensis: Quesada-Sanz, 2005: 6. Kromayer, 1905: 11–13 vigorously argues that three feet was insufficient spacing, part of an ongoing, and often testy, exchange with Hans Delbrück. 23 Sage, 2008: 85–86 argues that Polybius’ six feet should be read from the left shoulder of the soldier ...
... 22 Gladius hispaniensis: Quesada-Sanz, 2005: 6. Kromayer, 1905: 11–13 vigorously argues that three feet was insufficient spacing, part of an ongoing, and often testy, exchange with Hans Delbrück. 23 Sage, 2008: 85–86 argues that Polybius’ six feet should be read from the left shoulder of the soldier ...
Duquesne Spy Ring - Florida Crisis Simulation VI
... Beyond the scope of the Roman Empire, emissaries of the Roman Empire have made contact with various nomadic tribes populating the coast of the Black Sea, while, in an attempt to bypass the Sassanid Empire, merchants have begun developing trade routes to India and China. Thus far, few traders have su ...
... Beyond the scope of the Roman Empire, emissaries of the Roman Empire have made contact with various nomadic tribes populating the coast of the Black Sea, while, in an attempt to bypass the Sassanid Empire, merchants have begun developing trade routes to India and China. Thus far, few traders have su ...
Guerrilleros in Hispania? - Universidad Autónoma de Madrid
... Metaurus, who were either warriors transformed into soldiers, the citizens of Saguntum, or the Ilergete heavy infantrymen, did not have much in common with the Hispani of two centuries later (when they were employed as auxilia by Caesarians and Pompeians). These Roman generals had plenty of legionar ...
... Metaurus, who were either warriors transformed into soldiers, the citizens of Saguntum, or the Ilergete heavy infantrymen, did not have much in common with the Hispani of two centuries later (when they were employed as auxilia by Caesarians and Pompeians). These Roman generals had plenty of legionar ...
The Alano-Gothic cavalry charge in the battle of Adrianopole
... are the same as the 2000 well trained recruits, picked out from different regiments by Sebastianus according to other source18. By dividing this number by the 300 mentioned by Ammianus modern scholars, we get ca. 7 infantry regiments19. But from this it is impossible, as correctly noted by Angliviel ...
... are the same as the 2000 well trained recruits, picked out from different regiments by Sebastianus according to other source18. By dividing this number by the 300 mentioned by Ammianus modern scholars, we get ca. 7 infantry regiments19. But from this it is impossible, as correctly noted by Angliviel ...
On the Wings of Eagles - Cambridge Scholars Publishing
... was deducted from the soldier’s pay.10 This suggests that those who were serving for the first time, and would therefore not be in possession of their own arms and armour, could have it supplied by the state and then pay it off in instalments. The soldier would then be able to retain his equipment a ...
... was deducted from the soldier’s pay.10 This suggests that those who were serving for the first time, and would therefore not be in possession of their own arms and armour, could have it supplied by the state and then pay it off in instalments. The soldier would then be able to retain his equipment a ...
How revolutionary were the military reforms of Gaius Marius?
... that his motives were per ambitionem consulis,8 though it should be noted that he is portraying the antiMarian viewpoint. Gabba (1977, 14), sees the changes as being merely the final stages in a process which had been ongoing for more than a century, though it must also be added that this action wou ...
... that his motives were per ambitionem consulis,8 though it should be noted that he is portraying the antiMarian viewpoint. Gabba (1977, 14), sees the changes as being merely the final stages in a process which had been ongoing for more than a century, though it must also be added that this action wou ...
Roman Soldiers Written Records
... The Tungrians were joined there, and succeeded at Vindolanda, by Batavian troops who were, if anything, even more battle tested. Natives of what is now called Holland, the Batavians were, according to Tacitus, "foremost among all these [German] nations in valour." Unique among the empire's allies, t ...
... The Tungrians were joined there, and succeeded at Vindolanda, by Batavian troops who were, if anything, even more battle tested. Natives of what is now called Holland, the Batavians were, according to Tacitus, "foremost among all these [German] nations in valour." Unique among the empire's allies, t ...
Rome Threatens Sardinia in the First Punic War `The First Punic War
... thousand soli d Libyan spearme n, supported by over 1,0 00 superb Numidi an light cavalry and heavy ...
... thousand soli d Libyan spearme n, supported by over 1,0 00 superb Numidi an light cavalry and heavy ...
Roman Labor in Transition: Slaves, Coloni, and Other Workers The
... who labored in difficult jobs in workshops and factories. And while slaves may have been rarer than in early imperial times, they were still quite common. Many people were enslaved from barbarian peoples on Rome’s borders, and on the frontiers slaves seem to have continued to be cheap. Even humble R ...
... who labored in difficult jobs in workshops and factories. And while slaves may have been rarer than in early imperial times, they were still quite common. Many people were enslaved from barbarian peoples on Rome’s borders, and on the frontiers slaves seem to have continued to be cheap. Even humble R ...