takes on tackles the evolution of the Roman Army from the end of the Antonine era through the Crisis of the Third Century and the accession of Diocletian, a period of enormous internal unrest and ...

This settlement has long been written off as a failed backwater, but new evidence suggested it flourished even as the Roman Empire crumbled around it. The Crisis of the Third Century was a period ...

Rome's "Crisis of the Third Century" I enjoy Pen & Sword's ancient ... Pearson's latest P&S book, a more generalized narrative of a dozen particularly fraught years in a third-century Roman experience ...

The showdown had been decades in the making. By the middle of the third century A.D. the Roman Empire was mired in political and economic crisis, its frontiers under constant attack, and its ...

An auxiliary was a soldier who was not a Roman citizen. He was only paid a third ... A legion was further divided into groups of 80 men called ‘centuries’. The man in charge of a century ...

Archaeologists think that as many as 150 individuals may have been hastily buried at the site, likely after a "catastrophic" military event ...