03-31-2014, 05:07 PM
Thank you Graham!
I have the books you mentioned and I'm aware that Fuentes' article is somewhat outdated.
But there is a discussion about it in another forum and even I read it sometime in the 90s I simply wanted to recall his arguments.
Apart from this I think it's sometimes usefull to have a fresh view on an old work to re-open the mind.
In the moment I'm reading "Waffen und Uniform des Römischen Heeres der Prinzipatsepoche nach den Grabreliefs Noricums und Pannoniens" by Hannsjörg Ubl.
This thesis from 1969 is mentioned in nearly every book about the Roman army, but remained unpublished until now (44! years later).
It's a nice edition and I would place this book besides such important works like Robinson's "Armour of Imperial Rome" and Bishop/Coulston's "Roman Military Equipment".
I have the books you mentioned and I'm aware that Fuentes' article is somewhat outdated.
But there is a discussion about it in another forum and even I read it sometime in the 90s I simply wanted to recall his arguments.
Apart from this I think it's sometimes usefull to have a fresh view on an old work to re-open the mind.
In the moment I'm reading "Waffen und Uniform des Römischen Heeres der Prinzipatsepoche nach den Grabreliefs Noricums und Pannoniens" by Hannsjörg Ubl.
This thesis from 1969 is mentioned in nearly every book about the Roman army, but remained unpublished until now (44! years later).
It's a nice edition and I would place this book besides such important works like Robinson's "Armour of Imperial Rome" and Bishop/Coulston's "Roman Military Equipment".
Andreas Gagelmann
Berlin, Germany
Berlin, Germany
