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Does anyone know a good article/book on the relations between roman soldiers and their heirs?

Quote:Does anyone know a good article/book on the relations between roman soldiers and their heirs?

This seems to have something on the subject:
Aspects of Friendship in the Graeco-Roman World (JRA Supplementary Series 43)

Quote:Cecilia Ricci concludes the set by discussing the 155 inscriptions by urban troops in Rome, almost all funerary, which mention friendship ...... Or was there simply a tendency for unmarried veterans to nominate those dearest to them, who were naturally their fellow-servicemen, as their beneficiaries?

Also in Journal of Roman Archaeology, supplement 34 - 'The Roman Army as a Community'. Here's a PDF of the intro:
eprints.bbk.ac.uk/archive/00000261/01/haynes2.pdf

Quote: Check out page 9.

I know a very good article of some juridic aspects of the roman army:

http://www.ejercito.mde.es/ihycm/revista/90/1canas.htm

Sorry, it's in spanish. :roll:

And not specifically to the soldiers you can see one the chapter of roman juresprudence in the Gibbon's book, The Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire

It's online here:

http://www.fordham.edu/halsall/ancient/ ... hap44.html

You might also want to think about:

Campbell, Brian, [amazon]The Emperor and the Roman Army, 31 B.C.-A.D. 235[/amazon]

Which has a substantial chunk on the Roman military will, not least on its importance as a perk of the job, as well has how and why emperors protected its status.

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Tom

Thanks for the tip, but I've already got that. I'm looking for something more specific. I want to know whether legionaries' heirs were in the same centurie/cohors, whether their officers often were heirs, etc. Such detailed stuff.