dbm army lists
... during only part of the period. An army including troops only available to a particular general cannot include troops available only to a different general. An army including troops only available in a particular geographical area cannot include troops available only in a different geographical area ...
... during only part of the period. An army including troops only available to a particular general cannot include troops available only to a different general. An army including troops only available in a particular geographical area cannot include troops available only in a different geographical area ...
The Portrayal and Role of Anger in the Res Gestae of Ammianus
... Roman Empire from Gaul to Germania, to Illyricum, Spain, Africa, Thrace, Syria and Italy. There are even major books that cover the wars in Persia that occupied so much of the Eastern emperors’ reigns. The period is contained in the extant volumes of Ammianus’ works, from Books 14-31, but my thesis ...
... Roman Empire from Gaul to Germania, to Illyricum, Spain, Africa, Thrace, Syria and Italy. There are even major books that cover the wars in Persia that occupied so much of the Eastern emperors’ reigns. The period is contained in the extant volumes of Ammianus’ works, from Books 14-31, but my thesis ...
RICH-DISSERTATION-2015 - The University of Texas at Austin
... ridicule, and I explore the ways that an emotional community responds to ridicule. In the introduction, I contextualize my study in the scholarship on ridicule, emotion, and emotional communities. I discuss the function of pride and ridicule in ancient Rome, and I provide an analysis of the Latin wo ...
... ridicule, and I explore the ways that an emotional community responds to ridicule. In the introduction, I contextualize my study in the scholarship on ridicule, emotion, and emotional communities. I discuss the function of pride and ridicule in ancient Rome, and I provide an analysis of the Latin wo ...
The Good, the Bad, and the Barbari: A Comparison of
... There is a rather large collection of information regarding Ammianus’ life, as he enjoys inserting himself in his own work.4 Ammianus refers to himself as an adolescens5 in 357, which generally applies to a young man under the age of 30, 9 implying he was born circa 325-330. His birthplace was in th ...
... There is a rather large collection of information regarding Ammianus’ life, as he enjoys inserting himself in his own work.4 Ammianus refers to himself as an adolescens5 in 357, which generally applies to a young man under the age of 30, 9 implying he was born circa 325-330. His birthplace was in th ...
the republican soldier: historiographical representations and human
... which are close to this topic, such as Phang’s Roman Military Service: Ideologies of Discipline in the Late Republic and Early Principate, which examines the social and cultural implications of discipline in the army.1 Unfortunately it lies on the other side of the late Republican divide, dealing wi ...
... which are close to this topic, such as Phang’s Roman Military Service: Ideologies of Discipline in the Late Republic and Early Principate, which examines the social and cultural implications of discipline in the army.1 Unfortunately it lies on the other side of the late Republican divide, dealing wi ...
The Spartacus War. - Michigan War Studies Review
... countryside abandoned their hated regimen of forced work and joined the revolt. Spartacus somehow transformed this hodge-podge of fugitives into a force capable of defeating the larger and larger Roman armies sent against him. His army, grown to tens of thousands, devastated large sections of southe ...
... countryside abandoned their hated regimen of forced work and joined the revolt. Spartacus somehow transformed this hodge-podge of fugitives into a force capable of defeating the larger and larger Roman armies sent against him. His army, grown to tens of thousands, devastated large sections of southe ...
VOLUME #2 of THE ANCIENT WORLD SERIES
... Carthage includes several player aids to help manage the large stacks of units and markers. Each player has an Army Display and City Occupation Display, the former for keeping track of which combat units belong to which Legion/Army/Fleet, while the latter holds the various city garrisons. Both displ ...
... Carthage includes several player aids to help manage the large stacks of units and markers. Each player has an Army Display and City Occupation Display, the former for keeping track of which combat units belong to which Legion/Army/Fleet, while the latter holds the various city garrisons. Both displ ...
From Alexander to..
... physical and mechanical principles to improve armaments. Weapons fired by torsion bars powered by horsehair and ox tendon (the Greeks called this material neuron ) springs could fire arrows, stones, and pots of burning pitch along a parabolic arc. Some of these machines were quite large and heavy an ...
... physical and mechanical principles to improve armaments. Weapons fired by torsion bars powered by horsehair and ox tendon (the Greeks called this material neuron ) springs could fire arrows, stones, and pots of burning pitch along a parabolic arc. Some of these machines were quite large and heavy an ...
The Roman Riders: Ethnicity and Iconography on Roman
... diverse tribal and Etruscan regions of Italy. Rome then faced the Phoenician colony of Carthage in North Africa--the major rival power for control of naval trade in the Mediterranean Basin. After Rome’s victory over Punic Carthage in 146 B.C.E., Roman troops were subsequently sent out to conquer and ...
... diverse tribal and Etruscan regions of Italy. Rome then faced the Phoenician colony of Carthage in North Africa--the major rival power for control of naval trade in the Mediterranean Basin. After Rome’s victory over Punic Carthage in 146 B.C.E., Roman troops were subsequently sent out to conquer and ...
Marius` Mules - Western Oregon University
... offices, the aedile (magistrates responsible for public works).. Plutarch notes that he failed to win election to both the curule aedile, but also the plebian aedile 10 . Marius remained undeterred after these defeats and threw his energy into the campaign for the praetorship. He was forced to use h ...
... offices, the aedile (magistrates responsible for public works).. Plutarch notes that he failed to win election to both the curule aedile, but also the plebian aedile 10 . Marius remained undeterred after these defeats and threw his energy into the campaign for the praetorship. He was forced to use h ...
EASTERN RELIGIOUS INFLUENCES IN THE IMPERIAL ROMAN
... citizenship, which was necessary in the case of the former. The role of any military force made up of non-Romans was to assist the citizen legions, thus explaining the title auxilia.35 Citizenship, however, was not completely out of reach for an auxiliary soldier. The emperor Claudius (41-54 CE), wh ...
... citizenship, which was necessary in the case of the former. The role of any military force made up of non-Romans was to assist the citizen legions, thus explaining the title auxilia.35 Citizenship, however, was not completely out of reach for an auxiliary soldier. The emperor Claudius (41-54 CE), wh ...
Financing War in the Roman Republic 201 BCE
... factor that could boost state income was war reparations paid by defeated states over several years. Moreover, not all the money recorded in the sources went into the aerarium. For example, it is not entirely clear what proportion of plunder was reserved for the treasury and what was distributed to ...
... factor that could boost state income was war reparations paid by defeated states over several years. Moreover, not all the money recorded in the sources went into the aerarium. For example, it is not entirely clear what proportion of plunder was reserved for the treasury and what was distributed to ...
Publicani - Radboud Repository
... most serious criticism is that the story contains many anachronistic elements. Badian rightly rejected the depiction of the political row which implies “an organized ordo publicanorum with the sort of status and powers it had in the age o f Cicero”. He points also to certain inconsistencies in the a ...
... most serious criticism is that the story contains many anachronistic elements. Badian rightly rejected the depiction of the political row which implies “an organized ordo publicanorum with the sort of status and powers it had in the age o f Cicero”. He points also to certain inconsistencies in the a ...
Roman Castleford - Wakefield Council
... 18th century - William Stukeley and Thomas Whitaker A visit by Stukeley 1725 In the 1700s many more people took an interest in visiting sites and publishing what they saw. William Stukeley visited Castleford in late 1725. He described what he saw in more detail than Leland and Camden: ‘ … The place ...
... 18th century - William Stukeley and Thomas Whitaker A visit by Stukeley 1725 In the 1700s many more people took an interest in visiting sites and publishing what they saw. William Stukeley visited Castleford in late 1725. He described what he saw in more detail than Leland and Camden: ‘ … The place ...
Commodus
... • He ruled with Lucius Verus, until his death in 169A.D. • He was one of the last five emperor’s, and is also considered one of the most important Stoic philosophers. ...
... • He ruled with Lucius Verus, until his death in 169A.D. • He was one of the last five emperor’s, and is also considered one of the most important Stoic philosophers. ...
50 Battles - Sayed Badar Zaman Shah
... as some were outside the empire, they would incite those who were inside, to rebel. But conquest of Greece would not be easy. Mardonius had learned that. After putting down the Ionian revolt, he continued into mainland Greece. Thessaly had submitted, but the semi-nomadic Thracians had put up a stiff ...
... as some were outside the empire, they would incite those who were inside, to rebel. But conquest of Greece would not be easy. Mardonius had learned that. After putting down the Ionian revolt, he continued into mainland Greece. Thessaly had submitted, but the semi-nomadic Thracians had put up a stiff ...
The Roman City Carnuntum
... has been verified that he wrote the second book of his famous “Meditations” here. In the year 193 AD the then ruling governor Septimius Severus was proclaimed emperor by his troops in Carnuntum, and he then raised Carnuntum to the status of a colonia (Colonia Septimia Aurelia Antoniniana Karnuntum). ...
... has been verified that he wrote the second book of his famous “Meditations” here. In the year 193 AD the then ruling governor Septimius Severus was proclaimed emperor by his troops in Carnuntum, and he then raised Carnuntum to the status of a colonia (Colonia Septimia Aurelia Antoniniana Karnuntum). ...
The Later Roman Empire 285 to 476 AD
... Unconquered Sun. (Feast Day 25th December) He believed in a single God and that all other pagan Gods were in fact Sol Invictus taking on different forms. The Emperor Constantine for most of his life was also a follower of this cult which was popular with Eastern Roman army and had also been foll ...
... Unconquered Sun. (Feast Day 25th December) He believed in a single God and that all other pagan Gods were in fact Sol Invictus taking on different forms. The Emperor Constantine for most of his life was also a follower of this cult which was popular with Eastern Roman army and had also been foll ...
A Tale of Two States
... as Glicksman to form a perception of these aspects such as trade in the state. 12 It does not however appear that any of these historians have approached in any great detail the focus of my thesis question; that of the extent to which these states can inform us of the condition of the Western Roman ...
... as Glicksman to form a perception of these aspects such as trade in the state. 12 It does not however appear that any of these historians have approached in any great detail the focus of my thesis question; that of the extent to which these states can inform us of the condition of the Western Roman ...
Loyalty and the Sacramentum in the Roman
... conscription had been declining gradually over the course of the 2nd century, which might suggest that the enlistment of the capite censi was merely the next logical step in military recruitment;8 Rich points out, however, that there is no known enlistment of proletarii after 107 and that this pract ...
... conscription had been declining gradually over the course of the 2nd century, which might suggest that the enlistment of the capite censi was merely the next logical step in military recruitment;8 Rich points out, however, that there is no known enlistment of proletarii after 107 and that this pract ...
- Macquarie University ResearchOnline
... Africanus’ tactical reforms, that they constituted a widely applicable alteration to tactical doctrine, and, finally, whether this reform program was abandoned in the Second and Third Macedonian Wars. These aims are addressed by a comparison of six set piece engagements, each critically reexamined b ...
... Africanus’ tactical reforms, that they constituted a widely applicable alteration to tactical doctrine, and, finally, whether this reform program was abandoned in the Second and Third Macedonian Wars. These aims are addressed by a comparison of six set piece engagements, each critically reexamined b ...
Mortem et Gloriam - Army Lists - Italy
... This list reflects the Roman army described by Polybius. The reforms that led to the Polybian system appear to have started after the First Samnite War. During this period Rome conquered all of Italy. In the three Punic wars Rome destroyed Carthage and created a Roman province in Africa. It also cre ...
... This list reflects the Roman army described by Polybius. The reforms that led to the Polybian system appear to have started after the First Samnite War. During this period Rome conquered all of Italy. In the three Punic wars Rome destroyed Carthage and created a Roman province in Africa. It also cre ...
Marius` Military Reforms and the War Against Jugurtha
... rest of the population formed the bulk of the army, consisting of 5 classes acting as infantry. Each class was had its own unique equipment. Men over 46 were to protect the city from attack and there were also men who did not fall into one of the 5 classes for the military, who were disqualified fro ...
... rest of the population formed the bulk of the army, consisting of 5 classes acting as infantry. Each class was had its own unique equipment. Men over 46 were to protect the city from attack and there were also men who did not fall into one of the 5 classes for the military, who were disqualified fro ...
A tale of two periods
... several authors have also carefully suggested that the view of the tetrarchic period as a time of restoration perhaps puts too much faith in the propaganda of Diocletian’s government, although this line of thought has yet to be pursued thoroughly. But what is especially striking is the strict demarc ...
... several authors have also carefully suggested that the view of the tetrarchic period as a time of restoration perhaps puts too much faith in the propaganda of Diocletian’s government, although this line of thought has yet to be pursued thoroughly. But what is especially striking is the strict demarc ...
The coinage of Quintus Labienus Parthicus - E
... what they considered the illegalities of the Caesarian forces controlled and led by Antony and Octavian. Although Labienus must have considered that his alliance with the Parthians, traditional enemies of Rome, was another instance where the end was justified by the means, in the eyes of most Roman ...
... what they considered the illegalities of the Caesarian forces controlled and led by Antony and Octavian. Although Labienus must have considered that his alliance with the Parthians, traditional enemies of Rome, was another instance where the end was justified by the means, in the eyes of most Roman ...