Roman Soldier vs Germanic Warrior: 1st Century ADLindsay Powell
Of course, the army would continue to evolve with career soldiers serving for twenty years or more, and other classes moving up the ranks during such periods as the reign of Septimius Severus who also allowed soldiers to marry. The soldiery would later make emperors, or destroy them. One th...
He is clearly not a soldier, and appears to be wearing the tunic of a slave. Why a slave might be on a horse is a question that itself needs to be asked, let alone why a slave on a horse is so close to the emperor. Eminent historians have decided that the slave is not a ...
The Roman Republic in the 1st Century BCE was in turmoil. A series of civil wars had taken its toll on the population. Rome had two social classes, the patrician: wealthy noblemen, and the plebians: the common people of Rome. The gap between the two classes continued to widen and tensio...
Although the Roman Empire, and therefore its army, existed for many centuries it is the high point of imperial Rome, during the first and second centuries CE, that has produced the most archaeological evidence for the look of the soldier, and perhaps that is why it is this look that is ...
Lucius Sergius Catilina, known in English as Catiline (; 108–62 BC), was a Roman Senator of the 1st century BC best known for the second Catilinarian conspiracy, an attempt to overthrow the Roman Republic and, in particular, the power of the aristocratic Senate. He is also known for ...
“Britain ought to examine herself […] on the matter of Europe. [There is first] a question of [Britan’s] roots and culture [which are] European, from the 1st century AD to the present. Yes, there is also a different strain, wider and tied to the British expansion on the sea, ...
More than 120 people have been executed on the site, everyone from Sir Simon de Burley, tutor to King Richard II, in 1388, through to Thomas Cromwell in in 1540 and a soldier arrested during the Gordon Riots of 1780. These days the gallows and scaffold – and the crowds which accompanied...
(tortoise) formation. The legionaries carried the gladius in a scabbard mounted on a belt or on a shoulder strap. It was worn on the left side of the soldier’s body, and the legionary had to reach across his body to draw it. Centurions, to differentiate themselves from their soldiers,...
The centuries took their titles from the old use of the legion drawn up in three lines of battle using three classes of soldier. (Each century would then hold a cross-section of this theoretical line, although these century titles were now essentially nominal.) Each of the three lines is ...