Found this cool youtube vid 3rd Century Roman Legionary model figure. It looks awesome so I thought I'd share it with you guys.
Found this cool youtube vid 3rd Century Roman Legionary model figure. It looks awesome so I thought I'd share it with you guys.
Very nice - and great music too. Thanks for sharing!
Oh thanks!
this looks very interesting.
B.t.w. I've read all of H. Sidebottom's books (3) and found them terrific. Can't wait to get hold of the upcoming fourth !!
I'm thinking of purchasing this book myself: "The Fall of the Roman Empire: A New History of Rome and the Barbarians," by Peter Heather. Link: http://www.amazon.com/Fall-Roman-Emp.../dp/0195159543. To any of those who may have it already, is it a worthy read?
i don't have it but i think it's worth buying. Heather is one of the best known historians concerning late Roman empire.
Yes, basically from Hadrianopolis on.
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They are interesting, but how he has been showing the Sassanians is horrible. They are more like Timur-i-Lenk`s murderous Central Asia hordes, how inept they are being showed in melee battles is total nonsense and the whole story follows a outdated view of West-East relationships.
It is a pity, because due that bias of the author I consider those books as lost opportunities.
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He doesn't show them as horrible, I've read the books rather thougroughly and he shows that the sassanids were much more powerful than the parthians as they were much more united. Their armies were therefore morepowerful and rome had to have a massive troop increase which caused economic collapse
De gustibus non est disputandum.
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Well... Gibbon, though certainly outdated nowadays, is still a very entertaining reading. Also Adrian's Goldworthy's "How Rome fell" covers the third century crisis on until Justinian. I'm not very fond of what he says or completely agree with his opinions but it meets your requirements, in terms of the time frame at least.
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These are 4th century legionaries, not 3rd century. The lorica segmentata was even still used at this time, plus a lot of hamata ofc, but the shields/helmets were pretty much the same as earlier (Trajans for instance) legion shields. These troops look something Constantine would use :-) Here you have full on scale armor troops with long "spathas" , a cross wouldnt be out of place on these units :-P