ANCIENT WARFARE XIV-2 - RISE OF THE LEGION, THE DEVELOPMENT OF A 'ROMAN' ARMY

Sempre disponibile questo ormai ben noto bimestrale di storia militare antica realizzato in Olanda ma con testo in lingua inglese. Ogni numero di 50 pagine contiene interessanti articoli abilmente illustrati con foto e tavole a colori.

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Theme: Rise of the Roman legion

• Marc DeSantis, 'The Roman army of the fourth century BC - Livy's manipular legion'.
• Jeremy Armstrong, 'Considering the early Roman army - New approaches and paradigms'.
• Josh Hall, 'Rome's first steps towards empire - The Siege of Veii, 406-396 BC'.
• Michael Taylor, 'The origin of the manipular legion - Parsing the phalanx'.
• Ross Cowan, 'Pilum, hasta, gladius, and scutum - Weapons of the early legions'.

Features:

• Duncan B. Campell, 'Soldiers, sailors, and seamen - Roman fleet personnel'.
• M.C. Bishop, 'The Roman Niederbieber helmets - Form and function'.
• Jo Ball, 'A civilian complaint from Vindolanda - Soldiers behaving badly'.
• Molly Willett, '"Able to make as good a use of night as of day" - Nighttime warfare'.
• Murray Dahm, 'Elite hoplite units in the city of Cadmus - The 300... Thebans?!'.