ROMAN INFANTRY HELMETS
Until the last quarter of the 20th century, the modern impression of Roman helmets was dominated, as with so much about the Roman Army, by the reliefs on the helical frieze on Trajan’s Column in the centre of Rome.
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Campaign 416: Cynoscephalae 197 BC
I’ve been drawn to the battle of Cynoscephalae from an early age. I remember my mother buying me John Warry’s Warfare in the Classical World at a book fair. It kickstarted in me a life-long fascination for and interest in the battles of antiquity.
A Centurion’s Tale
It is 1 January 107 BC. Caius Marius has just entered his first consulship and inherited the command of the conflict still raging in Numidia, a war that has thus far swallowed the reputations of three senatorial generals. He has his earlier experiences of Numidian campaigning serving as one of the legati of the distinguished general Quintus Caecilius Metellus, although obviously without the responsibilities of supreme command.
Roman Plate Armour
The complexity of the shaping involved in producing a muscled cuirass meant it was extremely labour intensive.