12-18-2004, 08:35 PM
Vegetius is always terribly tricky to use: sometimes you can, sometimes you can't. There's a paper about those Venetian blues in the last Roman Frontier Studies book. I'll look that up.<br>
As to the structure of the fleets in Ravenna & Misenum according to Vegetius: he is off by a mile there, probably confused by the Legiones Adiutrices.<br>
The paper's audience is the worst: ancient military historians, all the scary profs.<br>
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Found the article: Boris Rankov, Now you see it, now you don't. The British Fleet in Vegetius IV.37 (the painted ships).<br>
He completely and convincingly breaks down the believability of this chapter in V.<br>
However, that does not mean that there weren't any marines in the later empire. There were, and yes, that makes the question of the period in between (which IS 350 years!) the more interesting.<br>
<p>Greets<br>
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Jasper</p><i>Edited by: <A HREF=http://p200.ezboard.com/bromanarmytalk.showUserPublicProfile?gid=jasperoorthuys>Jasper Oorthuys</A> at: 12/18/04 10:55 pm<br></i>
As to the structure of the fleets in Ravenna & Misenum according to Vegetius: he is off by a mile there, probably confused by the Legiones Adiutrices.<br>
The paper's audience is the worst: ancient military historians, all the scary profs.<br>
<br>
---- Edit ----<br>
Found the article: Boris Rankov, Now you see it, now you don't. The British Fleet in Vegetius IV.37 (the painted ships).<br>
He completely and convincingly breaks down the believability of this chapter in V.<br>
However, that does not mean that there weren't any marines in the later empire. There were, and yes, that makes the question of the period in between (which IS 350 years!) the more interesting.<br>
<p>Greets<br>
<br>
Jasper</p><i>Edited by: <A HREF=http://p200.ezboard.com/bromanarmytalk.showUserPublicProfile?gid=jasperoorthuys>Jasper Oorthuys</A> at: 12/18/04 10:55 pm<br></i>
