Drawing upon the latest literary and archaeological research, this is
an in-depth study of the Roman Army units based in the Eastern Provinces
during the turbulent third century of the Roman Empire.
In this book, eminent Roman historian, Dr Raffaele D'Amato, looks at the
notoriously under-represented history of the Roman armies during the
middle 3rd Century whose records have been obscured by the chaotic civil
wars of that period between usurpers to the Imperial authority of Rome.
Following on from the previous title*,* MAA 527, Roman Army Units in
the Western Provinces (2): 3rd Century AD, this book considers the
evidence for troops in the Eastern half of the Empire specifically
around the Balkans, Mesopotamia, the Middle East and North Africa and
looks at the weakness of Imperial central authority which inevitably led
to local particularism and a wide range of appearance in regional
commands.
Dr D'Amato uses literary, painted, sculptural and archaeological sources
to reconstruct this little-understood period of Roman military history
and, with the aid of meticulous coloured artwork, photos and detailed
charts, reconstructs the appearance and campaigns of the Roman forces
stationed in the East.