PAUL CARTLEDGE
Legion: Life in the Roman Army
By Richard Abdy
British Museum Press £45
The British Museum has been having a bit of a torrid time of late.
To its rescue and even perhaps rehabilitation (something BP’s £50m subvention deal will not achieve) comes its first major exhibition of 2024, open now: Legion: Life in the Roman Army.
The title and subtitle are suitably punchy, but they’re also more than slightly misleading. By no means all soldiers
