Roman Empire, Principate, Augustus, Roman legion, Roman citizenship, Peregrinus (Roman), Lorica segmentata, Caracalla
Ceed Publishing
(10.08.2011
)
gutscheinfähig
ISBN-13:
978-613-6-54182-2
ISBN-10:
6136541823
EAN:
9786136541822
Buchsprache:
Englisch
Klappentext:
Please note that the content of this book primarily consists of articles available from Wikipedia or other free sources online. The Imperial Roman army refers to the armed forces deployed by the Roman Empire during the Principate era (30 BC – AD 284). Under the founder–emperor Augustus (ruled 30 BC – AD 14 ), the legions, which were formations numbering about 5,000 heavy infantry recruited from Roman citizens only, were transformed from a mixed conscript and volunteer corps serving an average of 10 years, to all-volunteer units of long-term professionals serving a standard 25-year term. (Conscription was only decreed in emergencies.) In the later 1st century, the size of a legion's First Cohort was doubled, increasing the strength of a legion to about 5,500.