04-14-2012, 07:42 PM
Quote:Roy Davies has a short chapter on military diet in his book Service In The Roman Army.Certainly a worthy starting-point, but remember that it was published in 1971. You probably need to read Anthony King's "Animal bones and the dietary identity of military and civilian groups in Roman Britain, Germany and Gaul", in: T.F.C. Blagg & A.C. King (eds.), Military and Civilian in Roman Britain (BAR #136, Oxford, 1984), pp. 187-217, for the role of meat in the ancient diet.
