10-01-2008, 10:48 AM
Hi Roy,
For something like the capsarius I guess it is quite safe to say that you can think of him as any other soldier. For a medicus - no idea and I doubt anybody really knows. Some of them we know that they served only for a comparatively short time (months rather than years) on a contracted basis and therefore may have been wearing no armor at all at any time IMO. Generally they are seen to be at an officer's level.
Some info may be had here:
Davies, Roy.W. The Medici of the Roman Armed Forces. Epigraphische Studien 8. Düsseldorf, 1969. 82-99
Davies, Roy W. The Roman Military Medical Service. Saalburg Jahrbuch 27, 1970. 84-104
Scarborough, John. Roman Medicine and the Legions: A Reconsideration. Medical History 12, 1968. 254-261
Nutton, Vivian. Medicine and the Roman Army: A Further Reconsideration. Medical History 13, 1969. 260-270
More recent, but in German is:
Juliane C. Wilmanns: Der Sanitätsdienst im Römischen Reich. Eine sozialgeschichtliche Studie zum Römischen Militärsanitätswesen nebst einer Prosopographie des Sanitätspersonals, Medizin der Antike, Band 2, Olms – Weidmann, Hildesheim, 1995
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For something like the capsarius I guess it is quite safe to say that you can think of him as any other soldier. For a medicus - no idea and I doubt anybody really knows. Some of them we know that they served only for a comparatively short time (months rather than years) on a contracted basis and therefore may have been wearing no armor at all at any time IMO. Generally they are seen to be at an officer's level.
Some info may be had here:
Davies, Roy.W. The Medici of the Roman Armed Forces. Epigraphische Studien 8. Düsseldorf, 1969. 82-99
Davies, Roy W. The Roman Military Medical Service. Saalburg Jahrbuch 27, 1970. 84-104
Scarborough, John. Roman Medicine and the Legions: A Reconsideration. Medical History 12, 1968. 254-261
Nutton, Vivian. Medicine and the Roman Army: A Further Reconsideration. Medical History 13, 1969. 260-270
More recent, but in German is:
Juliane C. Wilmanns: Der Sanitätsdienst im Römischen Reich. Eine sozialgeschichtliche Studie zum Römischen Militärsanitätswesen nebst einer Prosopographie des Sanitätspersonals, Medizin der Antike, Band 2, Olms – Weidmann, Hildesheim, 1995
Cheers,
Martin
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