10-19-2017, 12:34 AM
Nathan,
If I remember Summerly's thesis, his argument was that even after Nero, centurion transfers only occurred in the same or neighboring province. So, if a centurion was transferred to a legion in another region, it meant that one or the other legions had a vexillation serving far from home. That is an interesting theory implying that there was no bureaucracy in Rome arranging things.
Combined with other research (Dobson and Breeze?) that transferred centurions were directly commissioned - not promoted from the ranks, one gets the impression that transferring legions was a case of who you knew, not what you knew.
Has any other research been done on this?
Thanks,
Austin
If I remember Summerly's thesis, his argument was that even after Nero, centurion transfers only occurred in the same or neighboring province. So, if a centurion was transferred to a legion in another region, it meant that one or the other legions had a vexillation serving far from home. That is an interesting theory implying that there was no bureaucracy in Rome arranging things.
Combined with other research (Dobson and Breeze?) that transferred centurions were directly commissioned - not promoted from the ranks, one gets the impression that transferring legions was a case of who you knew, not what you knew.
Has any other research been done on this?
Thanks,
Austin
