History of the Roman Legions

An extraordinary eBook. Over 800 pages, 42 full-color illustrations, out of the text, of Tancredi Scarpelli, Italian illustrator, 30 full-color illustrations, out of the text, of great painters, various illustrations black and white in the text. All the texts of this eBook are free available on the web. Why buy it? Because the book is a resource that provide to a considerable added-value:

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list of films set in ancient Rome

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All the arguments of the eBook: The History of all roman legions: Organization, Equipment, Body armour, Tactics, Levy and conditions of service, Campaign record, Marching-order and camps, Social impact of military service. Political history of the Roman military, Roman kingdom, Roman Republic from late Republic to mid-Roman Empire, Middle Roman Empire, Late Roman Empire

Other: Imperial cavalry, Privileges, Relations, Oligarchical rule, Composition of legions, Roman conquest of Italy, Pattern of Roman expansion, Benefits of Roman hegemony, Military organisation of the Roman alliance, Historical cohesion of the Roman alliance, Samnite Wars, Pyrrhic War, 2nd Punic War, Social War, Integration of socii, Causes of socii revolt, Outbreak of revolt, Roman unification of Italy, Expansion of the Roman Republic, Imperial times, Conquest of the Iberian peninsula (21918 BC), Macedon, the Greek poleis, and Illyria (215148 BC), Jugurthine War (112105 BC), Resurgence of the Celtic threat (121 BC), New Germanic threat (113101 BC), Conflicts with Mithridates (8963 BC), Campaign against the Cilician pirates (67 BC), Caesar's early campaigns (5950 BC), Triumvirates, Caesarian ascension, and revolt (5330 BC). Empire: Imperial expansion (40 BC 117 AD), Year of the Four Emperors (69 AD), Jewish revolts (66135 AD), Struggle with Parthia (114217 AD), Usurpers (193394 AD), Struggle with the Sassanid Empire (230363 AD), Collapse of the Western Empire (402476 AD), Social War, Civil Wars.

Documents: The Battle of The Metaurus, B.: 207, The War with Porsena, The Conquest of Gaul, The Cimbri and Teutones Political Quarrels, The Battle of Chalons, A.D. 451, The First Punic War, The Praetorian Influence, The Great Enemies of Rome: Pyrrhus, Relation of the Augustan Age to other Literary Epochs, Roman Religion.

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