11-19-2010, 04:21 AM
Hi All
Given the debate on the thread "Legionary Officers and NCOs - Late Roman Army (284 - 565 AD)" I thought it might be timely to start this one.
Much of the discussion on the above thread revolves around the descriptions of Vegetius and whether or not these are reliable, being correctly interpreted etc etc. I know precious little about Vegetius and, on consulting my favourite primer (what else?) I find that "Publius Flavius Vegetius Renatus was a writer of the Later Roman Empire (and that) (n)othing is known of his life or station beyond what he tells us in his two surviving works." Well, that's as good a start as any. Then one reads on to find that Theodosius may not have been Theodosius the Great and that the Vegetius in a second body of work may not have been the same man who wrote the first. (Me, I reckon it was probably Chris Marlowe or Francis Bacon wrote all of it..... :lol: ).
Anyhow, I'd like to somehow encourage anyone interested to stop what they're doing and read in, on or around this (or these?) Vegetius(Vegetii?) to see if anything previously unremarked, unthought of, etc, bubbles to the surface.
So, at huge personal effort, I've not only skim-read the Wikipedia article on Vegetius but bits of a couple of pages on the Digital Attic site. With these I am going to begin a bibliography on Vegetius which I hope anyone else will feel free to add to. If a reference is online, it'd be great to have a link added. To start with, I'm going to attempt what I think is Harvard style and get better as I know more. Hmmm. OK. Here goes...
[size=150:390976t3]Flavius Vegetius Renatus - a Bibliography[/size]: has moved on to Post of Wed Nov 24, 2010 3:15 pm
Cheers
Howard / SPC
Given the debate on the thread "Legionary Officers and NCOs - Late Roman Army (284 - 565 AD)" I thought it might be timely to start this one.
Much of the discussion on the above thread revolves around the descriptions of Vegetius and whether or not these are reliable, being correctly interpreted etc etc. I know precious little about Vegetius and, on consulting my favourite primer (what else?) I find that "Publius Flavius Vegetius Renatus was a writer of the Later Roman Empire (and that) (n)othing is known of his life or station beyond what he tells us in his two surviving works." Well, that's as good a start as any. Then one reads on to find that Theodosius may not have been Theodosius the Great and that the Vegetius in a second body of work may not have been the same man who wrote the first. (Me, I reckon it was probably Chris Marlowe or Francis Bacon wrote all of it..... :lol: ).
Anyhow, I'd like to somehow encourage anyone interested to stop what they're doing and read in, on or around this (or these?) Vegetius(Vegetii?) to see if anything previously unremarked, unthought of, etc, bubbles to the surface.
So, at huge personal effort, I've not only skim-read the Wikipedia article on Vegetius but bits of a couple of pages on the Digital Attic site. With these I am going to begin a bibliography on Vegetius which I hope anyone else will feel free to add to. If a reference is online, it'd be great to have a link added. To start with, I'm going to attempt what I think is Harvard style and get better as I know more. Hmmm. OK. Here goes...
[size=150:390976t3]Flavius Vegetius Renatus - a Bibliography[/size]: has moved on to Post of Wed Nov 24, 2010 3:15 pm
Cheers
Howard / SPC
Spurius Papirius Cursor (Howard Russell)
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"Life is still worthwhile if you just smile."
(Turner, Parsons, Chaplin)
