2012年5月10日 · If legionaries were going to tattoo something as a mark of their loyalty we would more likely see personal names instead of nations - in any case, since the legionary was identifiably a roman sldier in the field, such a loyalty statement was basically unnecessary, and since the legions had persistent desertion problems both in peace and war, a ...

2016年4月30日 · The idea behind giving land at retirement was to allow the ex-soldier to feed himself for the rest of his life. It was the equivalent of a modern pension. Prior to the early 3rd century, Roman soldiers were not allowed to marry and the term of enlistment was 20 or 25 years, so soldiers could not marry until they retired at near 40 years of age.

2014年3月29日 · As a large, disciplined and skilled force of fit men, they played a crucial role in the construction of a province's Roman military and civil infrastructure: in addition to constructing forts and fortified defences such as Hadrian's Wall, they built roads, bridges, ports, public buildings, entire new cities (Roman colonies) and also engaged in ...

2010年10月6日 · In the early Empire, a soldier received a final, huge monetary payment and a plot of land, as his final rewards for his 25 years of service. I honestly don't know - and I doubt if anyone does know - if these were still given to a soldier at the end of his service c. 400 AD.

The stereotypical, Hollywood image of the Roman soldier has him carrying a rectangular shield, wearing lorica armor, and an Attic helmet with a red crest. Both literary and archaeological evidence have long shown that this is a gross stereotype; indeed, our invisioning of the "typical" Roman soldier - if there even ever was such a thing - only ...

2011年2月6日 · Some years ago I was at a Roman army re-enactment event (not participating) with two nephews of mine - ages 11 and 10 at the time. They both thought the army boots - caligae - were pretty cool, and it would be fun to dress like the soldier re-enactors. One old grizzled "centurian" had udones with his army sandals, and the kids were puzzled. He ...

2016年4月17日 · Pliny the Elder stated that the salarium, or salt ration, was originally the wage of a Roman soldier. Modern interpretation does tend to imply this was a secondary effect rather than primary (so that a soldier was being paid an allowance for the purchase of salt), but no-one has a precise idea of why the word came into common use other than via ...

2017年4月10日 · Almost no Roman music has survived, though we have some lyrics and ditties. It would be hard to *keep* any soldiers from singing or calling cadences at such a time, really. The jury is still out on whether the Romans commonly marched in step, but that tends to happen naturally if there is any singing or rythmic cadence.

2010年5月7日 · Aurelius Verecundinus - this soldier enlisted in a Danube Legion at the age of fifteen. He had risen to become a centurion in the II Parthica Legion at the time of his death in Syria c. 217-218 AD. Aurelius Maximianus - another 3rd Century soldier, he was an auxiliary in the double-strength Cohors Hemesenorum, a Pannonian unit.

2017年1月20日 · Ammianus likely held a bias against the Huns as they were unlike the other barbarians that the Romans encountered that is to say Mongoloid peoples from the steppe, and he was also a Roman soldier and likely fought against barbarians. The purpose of this write up is to discuss the importance of Ammianus Marcellinus as a primary source for the Huns.