In theory, putting down the rebels of the First Jewish Revolt should have been easy for the mighty Roman empire. But ...
Attila the Hun, 434-453 A.D. illustration published in 1894. Hunnic peoples migrated westward across Eurasia, switched between farming and herding, and became violent raiders in response to severe ...
Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2024. Pp. xlii, 362. Illus., maps, chron., sidebars, appends., biblio., index. $39.99 paper. ISBN:1009420100 Using Local ...
Wealth, culture, and power dwelled in the city of Palmyra in the third century A.D. This cosmopolitan capital of the Roman province of the same name lay close to the empire’s eastern borders, ...
In Britain, at the northernmost edge of the empire, Rome’s normal strategies for command and control of its provinces failed horribly. For the first time in memory, the Roman army was in retreat and ...