{"id":89130,"date":"2024-09-02T02:00:07","date_gmt":"2024-09-02T06:00:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/?p=89130"},"modified":"2024-10-01T20:57:07","modified_gmt":"2024-10-02T00:57:07","slug":"roman-auxiliaries-what-was-their-role-in-the-imperial-roman-army","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/2024\/09\/02\/roman-auxiliaries-what-was-their-role-in-the-imperial-roman-army\/","title":{"rendered":"Roman auxiliaries &#8211; what was their role in the Imperial Roman army?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p align=\"center\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"854\" height=\"480\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/uLgJ9p14M6Y?si=vV3gawfM2pQsl413\" title=\"YouTube video player\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<blockquote><p><strong>Adrian Goldsworthy. Historian and Novelist<\/strong><br \/>\nPublished May 8, 2024<\/p>\n<p>The non citizen soldiers of the Roman <em>Auxilia<\/em> served alongside the Roman citizens of the legions.  In the second and third centuries AD, there were at least as many auxiliaries as there were legionaries &mdash; probably more. Some were cavalry or archers, so served in roles that complemented the close order infantry of the legions. Yet the majority were infantrymen, wearing helmet and body armour. They looked different from the legionaries, but was their tactical role and style of fighting also different. Today we look at the tactical role of Roman auxiliaries.<\/p>\n<p>Extra reading:<\/p>\n<p>I mention M. Bishop &#038; J. Coulston, <em>Roman Military Equipment<\/em> which is one of the best starting places. Mike Bishop&#8217;s Osprey books on specific types of Roman army equipment are also excellent. Peter Connolly&#8217;s books, notably <em>Greece and Rome at War<\/em>, also remain well worthwhile.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Adrian Goldsworthy. Historian and Novelist Published May 8, 2024 The non citizen soldiers of the Roman Auxilia served alongside the Roman citizens of the legions. In the second and third centuries AD, there were at least as many auxiliaries as there were legionaries &mdash; probably more. Some were cavalry or archers, so served in roles [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[62,7,5,663],"tags":[1566,1379,31,1299,1102,1103,1343],"class_list":["post-89130","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-europe","category-history","category-military","category-weapons","tag-adriangoldsworthy","tag-armour","tag-army","tag-bladedweapons","tag-cavalry","tag-infantry","tag-romanempire"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p2hpV6-nbA","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/89130","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=89130"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/89130\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":89131,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/89130\/revisions\/89131"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=89130"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=89130"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=89130"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}