The ‘ghosts’ that provide the excuse for the (admittedly great) title of this book are the cannenses, the survivors of the Roman army comprehensively defeated at Cannae. And there’s some interesting info on what seems to have happened to them,[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
Posts Tagged Rome
Typically, thoughts about the economy of the ancient world hit a wall of ‘they didn’t have a solid idea of how finance works’. Similarly, talk of the Roman Empire doesn’t generally get any further away than it’s immediate political neighbors.[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
Osprey’s battle tactics series continues to be well done overall. This one concentrates a bit more on background, but that doesn’t really interfere with the main parts of the presentation. Despite the title, Fields takes a look at the situation[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
Peter Heather’s study of Western Europe after the fall of Rome comes in four parts, with the first three being similar, and the fourth different. Each one is about a separate attempt to restore ‘imperial’ rule to the Western Roman[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
The end of the Western Roman Empire is a hard subject to get a real grasp on. Ian Huges’ book about one of the final magister militums of the western empire does a lot to explain conditions during the beginning[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
Adrian Goldworthy’s In the Name of Rome is something of a mixed bag. It purports itself as being an examination of the Roman style of command by looking at several of its most prominent generals. The selection is constrained to[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
In 91 BC, the Roman Republic found itself fighting a not-quite civil war, when a large part of Rome’s allies and conquered peoples in Italy rebelled and tried to bring down the Roman Republic. Cataclysm 90 BC is about this[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
As you may remember from a previous post, I went squee over Playmobil Roman Legionaries. Time for further fun with them. A person on BoardGameGeek has started doing game reviews… using the Playmobil Romans, in the person of Centurion G.[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
I saw a commercial for them the other day. Squeee! So KYOOT! http://store.playmobilusa.com/on/demandware.store/Sites-US-Site/en_US/Search-Show?cgid=Roemer