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The reasons for Alexander the Great's attraction are plain as day. Here was a young king who burst out of Greece and in the space of a few years toppled the Persian empire, and in a few more marched his army all the way to India. He then marched all

The excavations at Vindolanda in northern Britain have long produced exciting finds. The year 2022 was no exception. From the Period I fort (ca. AD 85-92), a decorative copper alloy strap adornment or terminal was recovered. It may have been part of

Swanton here makes a careful study of the primary sources of the principal formations of the ancient world, determining their composition, function and efficacy. Exploring in a new way the battle-winning formations of heavy and light infantry, cavalr

A sword, a knife, and a spearhead were among artefacts recently found in a grave located near the Danube River in Germany. Archaeologists uncovered and examined the site in Geisingen-Gutmadingen (Tuttlingen) where a rainwater retention basin was to b

Dear sir, It's exciting to see the new diploma fragments from Perrhe (Turkey) (AW XV.4, p. 6), and we look forward to the official publication in due course. From the excellent photograph, it appears that the diploma was issued under the Syrian gover

An immersive event such as this provides for experimental archaeology and the collection of experiential data that helps us understand how elements of the hoplite panoply could have been worn or used under often harsh conditions such as long marches

We also have evidence of Domitian's Dacian campaign in the remarkable tombstone of Tiberius Claudius Maximus (AE (1985) 721) from Philippi in Greece. Tiberius tell us that he had served in Legio VII Claudia Pia Fidelis in Domitian's Dacian War, winni

The Dacians had long been considered a threat to the borders of the Roman empire; with a boundary along the Danube, their territory threatened the borders of the province of Moesia. Under both Augustus and Nero Dacians had been settled within Moesia.

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• Fink, Robert O. Roman Military Records on Papyrus. Cleveland: Published for the American Philological Association by the Press of Case Western Reserve University, 1971. • Maxfield, Valerie A. “Ostraca and the Roman Army in the Eastern Desert.” In D

By Sonya Nevin ISBN: 978-1350157590 Bloomsbury Publishing (2022) – £24.99 www.bloomsbury.com In The Idea of Marathon, Sonya Nevin endeavours to clarify the political and cultural landscapes of the Greek and Persian worlds that gave rise to the confli

By Andreas Konecny and Nicholas Sekunda (eds.) ISBN: 978-3851612714 Phoibos Verlag (2022) – €89.00 www.phoibos.at This collection of eleven papers commemorates the 2500th anniversary of the Battle of Plataea (or indeed Plataiai) fought in August 479

By J.K. Anderson University of California Press, 1970 ISBN: 978-0520015647 First published in 1970 and still a classic of fourth century warfare, Anderson is a first stop for any history of the way wars were fought up to the dawn of the Macedonian ag

Diodorus tells us (16.3.1-2) that it was Philip who introduced improvements in the organisation of Macedonian armies and introduced new a formation, equipment and tactics. There is no sound reason to reject this. The formation was the phalanx, made u