Start taking care of your skin: Click here http://tiege.com/filaximhistoria to get 30% off your first Tiege Hanley box plus a FREE gift!🎁

This video covers the lesser known branch of the Roman Imperial Army; the Auxilia, which is composed of soldiers from all corners of the Roman Empire, and outside it! This video will hopefully serve as a deep introduction to the Auxiliaries for both history buffs and those who have never heard of them before, for they are the Forgotten Heroes of Rome!


Primary sources:
-Tac. Agr. 35 -Tab. Vindol. II. 156 https://romaninscriptionsofbritain.or... -Tab. Vindol. II. 180 https://romaninscriptionsofbritain.or... -Tab. Vindol. II. 181 https://romaninscriptionsofbritain.or... -Tab. Vindol. I. 344 https://romaninscriptionsofbritain.or... -Tab. Vindol. I. 628 https://romaninscriptionsofbritain.or... -P. Dura. 82. https://findit.library.yale.edu/bookr... -P. Dura. 100. https://papyri.info/ddbdp/rom.mil.rec... -P. Dura. 101. https://papyri.info/ddbdp/rom.mil.rec... -Marcus Aurelius Lucilius: CIL 02-14, 4147 http://eda-bea.es/pub/record_card_2.p... -Secundus: Ephemeris Napocensis, EphNapoc-2020-296 https://db.edcs.eu/epigr/bilder.php?s...

Secondary sources:
-Bowman, A. K. Life and Letters on the Roman Frontier: Vindolanda and Its People. London: British Museum Publications, 1994. -Busquets Artigas, S. Los Externa auxilia en el siglo final de la República romana (133-27 a.C.). Barcelona: Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona, 2014. -D. J, Breeze. (1969). The immunes and principles of the Roman army. Doctoral thesis, Durham University. http://etheses.dur.ac.uk/10478/ -Gilliam, R. O; Fink, R. O. & Welles, C. B. Excavations at Dura-Europos. Final Report V, I. The parchments and papyri. New Haven: Yale University Press, 1959. -Gilliam, J. F. Dura Rosters and the Constitutio Antoniniana, in Historia: Zeitschrift für Alte Geschichte, Bd. 14, H. 1 (Jan., 1965), 74-92. -Ruiz de Arbulo, J. “La dedicatoria a Mars Campester del centurión T. Aurelius Decimus y el campus de la guarnición imperial de Tarraco en el siglo II d.C. Algunas reflexiones sobre la topografía militar de la capital provincial”, in CuPAUAM 37-38, 2011-12, 553-569. -Spaul, J. E. H. Ala2 The Auxiliary Cavalry Units of the Pre-Diocletianic Imperial Roman Army. Nectoreca Press: Andover, 1994. -Spaul, J. E. H. Cohors2 The Evidence for and a Short History of the Auxiliary Infantry Units of the Imperial Roman Army. Bristish Archaeological Reports International Series 841, 2000. -Speidel, M. Roman Army Pay Scales, in The Journal of Roman Studies 82, 87-106. -Speidel, M. P. Riding for Caesar: The Roman Emperors Horse Guard. Harvard University Press, 1997. -Tentea, O. “Cohors I Ituraeorum Sagittariorum Equitata Milliaria”, in ORBIS ANTIQVVS: Studia in honorem Ioannis Pisonis, Cluj-Napoca: National History Museum of Transylvania, 2004, 804-814.