Trajan and the Dacian Wars

[D B Campbell]

Anyway it's a classic, and Rossi is one of the greatest expert on this subject.

Lino Rossi was apparently a pathologist based in Milan and an amateur enthusiast in Roman studies. (That doesn't make him a bad person! :wink: ) His book was groundbreaking because it was the first publication of photos of the spiral frieze from the ground, the viewpoint of the ordinary Roman in the street -- however, the images are poor, and everyone goes back to the Cichorius plates for the detail. Rossi's main idea was that army units could be identified by their shield blazons, an idea that has not met with much approval. (Michael Speidel has pointed out that, on this logic, their are 122 different Dacian units and 49 Roman legions on the Column!)