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
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.
Hey thanks! Is it any good?
Bryan
Service in the Roman Army by Roy W. Davies, if you can get it in the library - used copies are not cheap.
Magnus,
I just bought the book you recomended. It shoud be here in Iraq in a couple of weeks.
Thanks,
Bryan
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?
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
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.
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
...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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Hey thanks. I'll see if I can find it.
Bryan
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! D
I had found this book fairly cheap and it is a very nice read..