Religion was integral to the conduct of war in the ancient world and the Romans were certainly no exception. No campaign was undertaken, no battle risked, without first making sacrifice to propitiate...
Emperor Nikephoros II Phokas: TheWhite Death of the Saracens is the first ever English-language biography of the man who broke the stranglehold of Islam over Byzantine Rome so that by the year 968 his...
Pompey, Labienus and Caesar's Final Battle of the Third Roman Civil War
by Gareth C Sampson
Price: $34.95
ISBN: 9781526793706
Publisher: Pen and Sword
Pub Date: 2025-04-28
Format: Hardcover
Imprint: Pen and Sword Military
224 Pages
After four years of fighting and two major victories, Julius Caesar had the upper hand in the Third Roman Civil War and had control of Rome itself. Yet despite this success, his surviving opponents...
In a single volume, Roman Republic at War catalogues and offers a brief description of every significant battle fought by the Roman Republic between 480 and 31 BC (and most of the minor ones too). The...
The Battles for Hispania, the Jewel in Rome’s Crown
by J J Herrero Giménez
Price: $39.95
ISBN: 9781399034692
Publisher: Pen and Sword
Pub Date: 2025-03-30
Format: Hardcover
Imprint: Frontline Books
288 Pages
The area of Hispania, this being the Roman name for the Iberian Peninsula and its provinces, had a great influence on the development of the history of Ancient Rome. In part this was because some of...
Much of Constantine I’s claim to lasting fame rests upon his sponsorship of Christianity, and many works have been published assessing whether his apparent conversion was a real religious experience...
Pompey’s career in command began at a young age, taking control of his deceased father’s legions in support of Sulla during the civil war with Marius. A precocious and ambitious talent, he held...
The majority of work on Roman Britain's military focuses on the legions, with much less attention paid to the auxilia, even though the latter formed the vast majority of the manpower. The auxiliary...
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