Ancient army numbers

[Marja]

Polybios total is 700k foot and 70k mounted.

I was counting the field armies and garrisons, not the military census figures.

Though about 1% seems to be more common for ancient professional armies, assuming low count population estimates.

Fact free, and contradicted every book on the subject matter.

Late Roman armies and fleets between 435,000 and 645,000 strong, out of a population between 40,000,000 and 60,000,000.

http://books.google.co.uk/books?id=ZS1Oo...bc&f=false

In-between citizen and professional armies. I discussed the example above.

http://books.google.co.uk/books/about/Th...edir_esc=y

Exactly which figures are you referencing? After the and of the civil wars and the formation of a long-term professional army, the Roman Army ranged between about 280,000 and 645,000. Can you point to any period when it exceeded 800,000-1,200,000/2%?

I am not an expert on the Achaemenid Persian Army, but the sources I've read describe a military aristocracy and a part-feudal part-professional army, so I'm inclined to estimate a lower military participation rate, closer to 1%, maybe 2%.

We can discard that number range, as fiction, as no such ratio exist for the ancient period as a MPR range.

Some such ratios exist, at least in Late Antiquity.