01-18-2013, 02:49 AM
Quote:The writer of that book is not considered very historically credible.
No, not very! Dando-Collins has been discussed here often enough, of course. But the mutinies were in 47BC, when Caesar was trying to keep his legions in service and lead them off to Africa. He managed to calm things down, and discharged many of his veterans then and the rest a couple of years later (Chrissanthos, 'Caesar and the Mutiny of 47BC' (2001) provides a good summary of events).
The army in Macedonia in 44BC was composed of legions uninvolved with the earlier mutinies (only V Alaudae and Legio Martia are named in the sources). They all opposed Caesar's murder, but some of them followed Octavian and the rest Antony. They all ended up on the same side in the end though!
[EDIT - Sorry, David - I wasn't sure whether you were responding to my last post or Burzum's!]
Nathan Ross
