The Army of the Roman Republic: The Second Century BC, Polybius and the Camps at Numantia, Spain - Couverture souple

Dobson, Mike

Couverture souple

ISBN 10 : 1785703986 ISBN 13 : 9781785703980

Editeur : Oxbow Books, 2016

Synopsis

The main source of archaeological evidence for Late Roman Republican camps is a complex of installations around the Iberian city of Numantia in Spain, excavated by Adolf Schulten in the early 1900s. This book reassesses Schulten and concludes that much of his interpretation is questionable. Radically different alternative reconstructions making use of recent fieldwork are presented for several of the sites. A discussion of dating evidence leads to alternative dates being offered for some of the camps. To aid interpreting the sites, army organisation and art of encampment for the period of the Numantine Wars is discussed. This study gives added importance to the sites at Numantia, for they not only form the main source of archaeological evidence for Late Republican camps, but provide evidence for the form of camp for both the late manipular army and the early cohort one.

A propos du livre

À propos de l'auteur

Mike Dobson is an Honorary Senior Research Fellow in the Department of Classics and Ancient History at the University of Exeter. His research area is the history and archaeology of the Roman Republican army and the Roman military installations of that period in Spain, with particular focus on the campaigns against Numantia.

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: Oxbow Books
• Date d'édition: 2016
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 1785703986
• ISBN 13: 9781785703980
• Reliure: Broché
• Nombre de pages: 436
• Coordonnées du fabricant: non disponible
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