09-16-2010, 02:34 PM
Quote:I was wandering auxilia unit's would most likely have been starded by "recruting" from a surten area. But my question is how quick would the identity have been mixed up by other tribes and maybe even other cultures? Do solitary soldiers of that time have been transfert or have moved around alot those day's?
This - according to Drinkwater [1], IIRC - is what happens in Gaul, where the recruitment areas for auxiliary units broadened over time (and especially after the Civilis revolt), diluting the originally strong ethnic identity of the auxiliary units. I don't know about other areas though, and the change may well have been made specifically for the Gallic units.
Quote:Grave stellea seem to show that Roman warriors moved from one unit to another every now and then... Right?
As above, it's more normal for this to happen as a result of promotion than of ordinary soldiers being "posted" from one unit to another.
Blue skies
Tom
[1] Drinkwater, J.F. (1978), ‘The Rise and Fall of the Gallic Iulii: Aspects of the Development of the Aristocracy of the Three Gauls under the Early Empire’, Latomus 37 (1978) 817-850.
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