Ancient Warfare Magazine

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When I first started to read about the Roman imperial navy for my MA thesis, I ran into claims about how Augustus' new fleets at Misenum and Ravenna made the Mediterranean safe for shipping. After all, pirates had almost entirely disappeared in the e

The archaeological site at Kalkriese, near Osnabrück in Germany, was clearly the site of a battle between Roman and Germanic soldiers in the first years of the first century AD. Whether that was the site of the defeat of Varus' legions or a battle be

MORE ONLINE View a detailed report on RIB 3275: https://bit.ly/3gg2KKS Two inscribed Roman building slabs have been taken out of storage and put on display for the public to enjoy at the University of Leeds, England. One of them bears possibly the lo

Based on the extant sources, it has been assumed that non-Greeks did not fight in large numbers in Greek armies in the fifth century BC. Evidence for their active participation has now come from a detailed study of ancient genomes. Mass war graves co

Perdiccas was one of Alexander the Great's most reliable commanders, fighting in all his battles. Initially a commander of a taxis of the phalanx, in 324 BC he took over command of the Companion cavalry after the death of Hephaestion. When Alexander

So too in the early archaic period - the period reflected in the Homeric poems - we find small, pre-state societies dominated by wealthy galley-owners, who take their companions (hetairoi) with them on summer plundering voyages; these raiders sometim

•Nilakanta, Sastri, ed. Age of the Nandas and Mauryas. Delhi: Motilal Banarsidass, 1988. •Roy, Kaushik. Warfare in Pre-British India. New York: Routledge, 201 7. •Thapar, Romila. Asoka and the Decline of the Mauryas. Third Edition. New Delhi: Oxford

Deploying a Roman Army the Ektaxis kat' Alanon of Arrian By Duncan B Campbell ISBN: 979-8803868620 Quirinus Editions (2022) - £15.99 Available from Amazon only The Array Against the Alans has been dealt with in these pages before (see AW 13.4). It is

Roman Warriors: The Paintings of Graham Sumner bBy Graham Sumner, text by Simon Elliott ISBN: 978-1784387198 Greenhill Books (2022) - £40.00 www.greenhillbooks.com Many of us have seen Graham Sumner's paintings before, in the pages of this magazine a

By Philip de Souza Cambridge University Press, 1999 ISBN: 978-0521012409 The meticulous scholarship makes this the go-to volume on ancient piracy; A historical study examining its origins and growth, impact on trade, and the relationship between warf

Piracy was a consistent, not to say constant, part of life in the Mediterranean, Black, and North Seas. From the Bronze age through to the Vandal pirates in the sixth century AD and beyond, we find piracy as a problem for every civilization. How to d