Roman Military Disasters: Dark Days and Lost Legions 1473823579, 9781473823570, 9781473873957
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Table of contents :
Acknowledgements
List of Plates
List of Diagrams
List of Maps
Timeline
Introduction
Part One: The Republic
Chapter 1 Rome’s Peninsular Wars
Chapter 2 The Roman War Machine
Chapter 3 The Sources
Chapter 4 The Fourth Century: the Gallic Invasion and the Samnite Wars
Chapter 5 The Third Century: the Wars with Pyrrhus, the Punic Wars and the Gallic Invasion
Chapter 6 The Second Century: the Spanish Wars, Viriathus and the Invasion of the Northmen
Chapter 7 The First Century: the Social War, Spartacus, Mithridates, Crassus, the Parthians and the Gauls
Chapter 8 ‘Doom Monster’ – Cleopatra VII
Part Two: The Empire
Chapter 9 The Early Empire: Clades Lolliana 16 BC, the Teutoburg Forest AD 9
Chapter 10 Boudica’s Revolt AD 60
Chapter 11 Beth-Horon AD 66 and the Jewish War AD 68
Chapter 12 Carnuntum AD 170; the Crisis of the Third Century – Abritus AD 251, Edessa AD 260
Chapter 13 The Theban Legion Massacre AD 286
Chapter 14 Adrianople AD 378
Chapter 15 Alaric’s Sack of Rome AD 410
Epilogue
Appendix 1: Typical Cursus Honorum in the Second Century BC
Appendix 2: Roman Assemblies
Appendix 3: The Seven Kings of Rome
Appendix 4: Some Carthaginian Generals
Appendix 5: Greek and Roman Authors
Appendix 6: Glossary of Greek and Latin Terms
Notes
Bibliography
