Lately with my new gig I have been reading a lot of tech guides and such. But when I get some off time I was actually reading this:
looks like my kind of book!
i read the description on AMZ,, does the book also give a description of where the legions were raised? for many legions, especially late republic, early empire ones, this is known and they were mainly raised in italy, southern gaul and hispania. however, as time went on and the empire expanded, much is not known of the actual ethnic consistency of the legions
we know they were not all Italian/roman though, to be a legionnaire, they had to be a roman citizen. and, we know that legions rarely served where they were raised for obvious reasons of duty vs regional loyalty.. so a legion raised in egypt, would have served elsewhere far from egypt
very few enlistment rolls containing actual ethnicity have been found but some have.. the main concern for recruitment was roman citizenship
then the auxiliary forces- usually archers, cavalry and specialists -like masons and carpenters.. NOT citizens and served in their own units that were attached to a legion
of course these practices of growing recruitment out of italy and near to Italy provinces, led to recruiting from men who though citizens, spoke dialects of latin that were more like vulgar latin then true latin.
so much still unk and probably may never be known.. this guy has a good channel on rome and other topics
How was the life of a Roman soldier? How did they live? What did they eat? How much did they earn? The Marian reforms (of Gaius Marius) enlarged the centurie...
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