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A common soldiers life?
#1
Hello Everyone,
Please bare with me I am new to the Roman seen and just want to do it right! Smile
Ok, I would like to know of any links, books, articles, pictures, and anything else on the life of the common Roman soldiers. I am sure that there is more then what I have. So I put the question to the experts. Like I said I just want to do it right. Any help that you would give me will be greatly appreciated.
Thanks,
Bryan
Tiberius Antonius Festus

Bryan Fitch

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#2
You can read Life and Letters on the Roman Frontier by Alan K. Bowman. It's a book about the recovered letters from the fort at Vindolanda from the legionaries and personel who garrisoned the fort.
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#3
Hey thanks! Is it any good?
Bryan
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Bryan Fitch

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#4
Service in the Roman Army by Roy W. Davies, if you can get it in the library - used copies are not cheap.
M. CVRIVS ALEXANDER
(Alexander Kyrychenko)
LEG XI CPF

quando omni flunkus, mortati
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#5
Magnus,
I just bought the book you recomended. It shoud be here in Iraq in a couple of weeks.
Thanks,
Bryan
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Bryan Fitch

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#6
The online bookstore at the Vindolanda webpage is a good place.

http://www.vindolanda.com/shop/index.php?cPath=24

Garrison Life is fun.
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#7
Richard Alston's "Soldier and Society in Roman Egypt" is just chock full of wow. Just remember it's about *my* Legion so you'll need to join after reading it. Just kidding!

8)

All the best in "The Sandbox" hopefully for not too much longer, eh?
Andy Volpe
"Build a time machine, it would make this [hobby] a lot easier."
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#8
From the Legio XX Bibliography page:

Lendon, J.E. Soldiers and Ghosts: A History of Battle in Classical Antiquity. ISBN 0-300-1-663-7

Peddie, John. The Roman War Machine. ISBN 0-7509-0673-1

Connolly, Peter. The Legionary. ISBN 0-19-917105-X

Connolly, Peter. The Cavalryman. ISBN 0-19-917106-8

Happy reading!

Matthew
Matthew Amt (Quintus)
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#9
Hey Bryan, it's a damn cool book. Gives a really cool idea about how they lived...I don't want to spoil it, but it seems troops haven't changed that much in 2000 years.
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#10
Well it seem that I have a lot of reading to do in the next year while I site in the sand box. Thanks All. Oh and Andy I don't think I could drive to Mass and back in a weekend. So I'll just have to stick with the little group my friends and I are starting. For now anyways. But thanks for the offer. Or maybe,,,,,,,,,,,,,, you could come join us!!!!!!!!!!
Bye,
Bryan
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Bryan Fitch

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#11
...an older book, but not obsolete and quite thorough is:

"The Roman Soldier" by G.R.Watson; it's aim is to reconstruct the life and training of the Roman Soldier from enlistment to discharge, including how he interacted with his society, and it does so in a fairly detailed way.....recommended! Smile D
"dulce et decorum est pro patria mori " - Horace
(It is a sweet and proper thing to die for ones country)

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#12
Hey thanks. I'll see if I can find it.
Bryan
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Quote:...an older book, but not obsolete and quite thorough is:

"The Roman Soldier" by G.R.Watson; it's aim is to reconstruct the life and training of the Roman Soldier from enlistment to discharge, including how he interacted with his society, and it does so in a fairly detailed way.....recommended! Smile D

I had found this book fairly cheap and it is a very nice read..
Animals die, friends die, and I shall die, but one thing never dies, and that is the reputation we leave behind after our death.
No man loses Honour who had any in the first place. - Syrus
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