Riding for Caesar : The Roman Emperor's Horseguard

by: Speidel, M.P.

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Riding for Caesar : the Roman emperors' horse guards
Author:Michael Speidel

Professor Speidel's book represents the first history of the Roman horse guard ever written and provides a readable account of the intricate part these men played in the fate of the Roman empire and its emperors.

Contents:
Chapter 1 FROM CAESAR TO NERO
chapter 2 RIDING HIGH: THE SECOND CENTURY
chapter 3 THE ROUGHSHOD THIRD CENTURY
chapter 4 TALL AND HANDSOME HORSEMEN
chapter 5 ARISTOCRATIC OFFICERS
chapter 6 WEAPONS AND WARFARE
chapter 7 LIFE IN ROME
chapter 8 GODS AND GRAVES
chapter 9 TRAINING FAITHFUL FRONTIER ARMIES
chapter 10 DEATH AT THE MILVIAN BRIDGE

During the Republic, Rome had no permanent guard as she had no ruler and no standing army. But as soon as emperors came to power, they raised a horse guard, for one-man rule hinged on it, in peace as well as in war. The history of the Roman horse guard in fact begins at Noviodunum, in 52 BC, when they saved Caesar in Gaul. Michael Speidel here traces the history of the tall, fierce and faithful horsemen from that monument until they perished with Maxentius, drowning in the battle of the Mivian Bridge. Based on literary, archaeological and epigraphic sources, Professor Speidel's book represents the first history of the Roman horse guard ever written and provides a readable account of the intricate part these men played in the fate of the Roman empire and its emperors.

Riding for Caesar : The Roman Emperor's Horseguard

by: Speidel, M.P.

• ISBN-13: 9780713467505 / 978-0-7134-6750-5
• ISBN-03: 0713467509 / 0-7134-6750-9
• B.T. Batsford Ltd., London, 1994

Price: 40,79 EURO

1 copy in stock