The Army of the Roman Republic: The Second Century Bc, Polybius and the Camps at Numantia, Spain

by Mike Dobson

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...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1785703986
• ISBN13: 9781785703980
• Release Date: October 2016
• Publisher: Oxbow Books Limited
• Length: 436 Pages