Roman Expansion

Roman Expansion

756 BC - 211 AD

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For a fuller description of the Roman triple line of battle and their tactical doctrine, see Liv. 8.8.9-13. Veg. De Re Militari. 1.20. Translated by N. P. Milner. (Liverpool: Liverpool University Press, 1996), 20 -22. Polyb. The Histories. 6.22-23. Penelope.uchicago.edu. (Accessed November 26, 2019) http://penelope.uchicago.edu/Thayer/E/Roman/Texts/Polybius/6*.html.
Lendon. J. E. Soldiers and Ghosts: a History of Battle in Classical Antiquity. (New Haven: Yale University Press, 2005), 178.
Brunt. P. A. Italian Manpower, 225 B.C. - A. D. 14. (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1971), 82. Plut. Marius. 9.1-4. Penelope.uchicago.edu. (Accessed November 26, 2019) http://penelope.uchicago.edu/Thayer/E/Roman/Texts/Plutarch/Lives/Marius*.html
Veg. De Re Militari. 2.6.
Plut. Marius. 13.1.
For background on the battle of Sentinum see Liv. Ab Urbe Condita. 10. 27 -30. Mcadams.posc.mu.edu. (Accessed November 26, 2019) http://mcadams.posc.mu.edu/txt/ah/Livy/Livy10.html.

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