Legions of Rome

Introduction. Part One - The Men: Where It All Began; Soldiering for Augustus; Enlisting and Retiring; Special Duties; Discipline and Punishment; Legionary Pay; Comparative Buying Power of a Legionary's Income, First-Second Centuries AD; Military Decorations and Awards; Legionary Uniforms and Equipment; The Legionary's Weapons; Legionary Training; Legionary Rations and Diet; Furloughs and Furlough Fees; Legion Musicians; The Standard-Bearer, Tesserarius and Optio; The Decurion; The Centurion; The Camp-Prefect; The Tribunes; The Prefect; The Quaestor; The Legate; The Praetor; Senior Officer Rank Distinctions; Senior Officers of the Late Empire: Prefects, dukes and counts take command; Auxiliaries; The Use of Multipart Names by Roman Auxiliaries and Sailors; Numeri; Marines and Sailors. Part Two - The Legions: Legion Organization; Lawrence Keppie's Legion Number Formula: Explaining the origins of the 5th to 10th legions; The Legion Camp; Watchwords and Trumpet Calls; On the March; Baggage Trains and Non-Combatants; Artillery and Siege Equipment; Legion, Praetorian Guard and Auxiliary Standards; The Vexillum; The Draco, or Dragon Standard; The Commander's Standard; Legion Emblems and Birth Signs: Caesar's bulls and other myths; The Triumph; Unit Histories: Rome's imperial legions and guard units; The Emperor's Household Cavalry; The Imperial Bodyguard: The German Guard and its successors; Legions of the Late Empire; Cavalry; Cavalry of the Late Empire; Camels and War Elephants; The Evocati; The Palatium. Part Three - The Battles: Routing the Scythians; The Cantabrian War; Rome Invades Ethiopia; Second Cantabrian War; The 5th Alaudae Loses its Eagle; Conquering Raetia; At the Altar of Peace; The Pannonian War; The Varus Disaster; The Struggle at Fort Aliso; Invading Germany; Battle of Long Bridges; Battle of Idistavisus; Battle of the Angrivar Barrier; Tacfarinas' Revolt; Scribonianus' Revolt; Invading Britain; Corbulo's First Armenian Campaign; Rioting in Jerusalem;

Stephen Dando-Collins is a novelist and historian. He is the author of several highly acclaimed works on ancient history including Cleopatra's Kidnappers, Nero's Killing Machine, Mark Antony's Heroes, Caesar's Legion and, most recently, Blood of the Caesars. He lives in Australia.