02-26-2006, 10:33 AM
HI Everyone,
Wow! I hadn't realized I'd been away for so long. Had to re-sign-up. The new board looks great!
I've got (another) favor to ask of you history gurus.
I'm researching the Battle of Munda, and also what happened in Cordoba and neighboring towns afterward. I'm gradually piecing together a picture, with the odd sparse and dodgy internet article, and a handful of lines in the history books I have (the main one I want, "Enemies of Rome" is on order at the library, but they are stocktaking for two weeks) ...
I'm trying to get a picture of who-was-on-whose-side-and-why in terms of the local people - both Roman settlers and native Cordobans.
I'm getting rather desperate. I was thinking of going to the secondhand bookshop to hunt down Colleen McCullough's novel about Caesar (at least her research is usually good) and very optimistically try to find Stephen Dando Collins' 'Caesar's Legion' which I gather is about the 10th, and they were key at Munda.
I've also read a very brief reference to Octavian leading a Cavalry attack in the battle, but only one unreliable source - another source mentions an Allied cavalry leader with no reference to Octavian.
I'd be keen to hear anything even remotely relevant, and if anyone knows a good general Roman Military History reference source that I'm not finding on Google, please let me know. (loads of rubbish pseudo-sites with 'supplemental results' keep coming up. Grrr)
Thanks heaps!
Pictoria
Helen South
Wow! I hadn't realized I'd been away for so long. Had to re-sign-up. The new board looks great!
I've got (another) favor to ask of you history gurus.
I'm researching the Battle of Munda, and also what happened in Cordoba and neighboring towns afterward. I'm gradually piecing together a picture, with the odd sparse and dodgy internet article, and a handful of lines in the history books I have (the main one I want, "Enemies of Rome" is on order at the library, but they are stocktaking for two weeks) ...
I'm trying to get a picture of who-was-on-whose-side-and-why in terms of the local people - both Roman settlers and native Cordobans.
I'm getting rather desperate. I was thinking of going to the secondhand bookshop to hunt down Colleen McCullough's novel about Caesar (at least her research is usually good) and very optimistically try to find Stephen Dando Collins' 'Caesar's Legion' which I gather is about the 10th, and they were key at Munda.
I've also read a very brief reference to Octavian leading a Cavalry attack in the battle, but only one unreliable source - another source mentions an Allied cavalry leader with no reference to Octavian.
I'd be keen to hear anything even remotely relevant, and if anyone knows a good general Roman Military History reference source that I'm not finding on Google, please let me know. (loads of rubbish pseudo-sites with 'supplemental results' keep coming up. Grrr)
Thanks heaps!
Pictoria
Helen South
