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A common soldiers life? - texascavtrooper - 07-19-2008
Hello Everyone,
Please bare with me I am new to the Roman seen and just want to do it right!
Ok, I would like to know of any links, books, articles, pictures, and anything else on the life of the common Roman soldiers. I am sure that there is more then what I have. So I put the question to the experts. Like I said I just want to do it right. Any help that you would give me will be greatly appreciated.
Thanks,
Bryan
Re: A common soldiers life? - Magnus - 07-19-2008
You can read Life and Letters on the Roman Frontier by Alan K. Bowman. It's a book about the recovered letters from the fort at Vindolanda from the legionaries and personel who garrisoned the fort.
Re: A common soldiers life? - texascavtrooper - 07-19-2008
Hey thanks! Is it any good?
Bryan
Re: A common soldiers life? - M. CVRIVS ALEXANDER - 07-19-2008
Service in the Roman Army by Roy W. Davies, if you can get it in the library - used copies are not cheap.
Re: A common soldiers life? - texascavtrooper - 07-19-2008
Magnus,
I just bought the book you recomended. It shoud be here in Iraq in a couple of weeks.
Thanks,
Bryan
Re: A common soldiers life? - Hibernicus - 07-19-2008
The online bookstore at the Vindolanda webpage is a good place.
http://www.vindolanda.com/shop/index.php?cPath=24
Garrison Life is fun.
Re: A common soldiers life? - A_Volpe - 07-19-2008
Richard Alston's "Soldier and Society in Roman Egypt" is just chock full of wow. Just remember it's about *my* Legion so you'll need to join after reading it. Just kidding!
8)
All the best in "The Sandbox" hopefully for not too much longer, eh?
Re: A common soldiers life? - Matthew Amt - 07-20-2008
From the Legio XX Bibliography page:
Lendon, J.E. Soldiers and Ghosts: A History of Battle in Classical Antiquity. ISBN 0-300-1-663-7
Peddie, John. The Roman War Machine. ISBN 0-7509-0673-1
Connolly, Peter. The Legionary. ISBN 0-19-917105-X
Connolly, Peter. The Cavalryman. ISBN 0-19-917106-8
Happy reading!
Matthew
Re: A common soldiers life? - Magnus - 07-20-2008
Hey Bryan, it's a damn cool book. Gives a really cool idea about how they lived...I don't want to spoil it, but it seems troops haven't changed that much in 2000 years.
Re: A common soldiers life? - texascavtrooper - 07-20-2008
Well it seem that I have a lot of reading to do in the next year while I site in the sand box. Thanks All. Oh and Andy I don't think I could drive to Mass and back in a weekend. So I'll just have to stick with the little group my friends and I are starting. For now anyways. But thanks for the offer. Or maybe,,,,,,,,,,,,,, you could come join us!!!!!!!!!!
Bye,
Bryan
A common soldier\'s life - Paullus Scipio - 07-20-2008
...an older book, but not obsolete and quite thorough is:
"The Roman Soldier" by G.R.Watson; it's aim is to reconstruct the life and training of the Roman Soldier from enlistment to discharge, including how he interacted with his society, and it does so in a fairly detailed way.....recommended!
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Re: A common soldiers life? - texascavtrooper - 07-20-2008
Hey thanks. I'll see if I can find it.
Bryan
Re: A common soldier\'s life - Octavianvs - 07-25-2008
Quote:...an older book, but not obsolete and quite thorough is:
"The Roman Soldier" by G.R.Watson; it's aim is to reconstruct the life and training of the Roman Soldier from enlistment to discharge, including how he interacted with his society, and it does so in a fairly detailed way.....recommended!
I had found this book fairly cheap and it is a very nice read..