05-18-2013, 09:45 AM
Quote:Medusa.Agreed, definitely. His work is so important for English-speaking Roman scholarship as well that it seems strange that it not be considered. There is however also a snobbishness amongst certain academics that holds Romanists should all be completely fluent in German (as well as Latin, Greek, French and Italian) before even considering doing basic research... Perhaps a fair enough criticism from European scholars who have to learn English to do anything internationally, but Junkelmann's books should also be easily accessible to the layman as well.
It is like you say all of his books are in German which is indeed a very sad thing for if the publishers were to do them in English, they would not only have greater sales but so many more might be able to enjoy such information.
I have mentioned this a couple of times to his publishers but they just appear to have this nationalistic view about it which is not only their loss but also a sad thing for so many others.
Panis Militaris in particular is a great discussion of the Roman military diet (including reconstructed meals) and would surely be easily sold in Roman site gift shops across the country. It does have a lot of photos, which may make a new release prohibitively costly at the offset, but I really hope it could be done at some point.
There have been a lot of marches since Junkelmann's, but most don't tend to be published to any sophisticated degree, which is a shame. Die römische Armee im Experiment by Koepfer et al (2011) is the most recent good source I could find (perhaps more recently superceded?), although most/all of it is in German again (fun times with Google translate).
Koepfer, C., Himmler, F.W., and Löffl, J. (eds) 2011. Die römische Armee im Experiment. Berlin: Frank & Timme.
