05-04-2006, 08:36 AM
I would have to add G.L. Cheesman's The Roman Auxilia (Oxford 1914) - a genuine tour de force that (in my opinion at least) has yet to be bettered. It may be out-of-date, but good scholarship (like fine wine) lasts. A year later he was killed at Gallipoli. Incidentally, this is out of copyright now (by definition, if he was killed in 1915) so why is there no digital edition on the web? A future project for Romanarmy.com, possibly?
Likewise, if you have to read only one excavation report on a Roman fort, it should be James Curle's A Roman Frontier Post and its People (Glasgow 1911), now available on the web. It has never been bettered and most modern reports are turgid wastes of dead trees in comparison. The man was a polymath who wore his learning lightly and one of the unsung Great Names in Romano-British archaeology.
Mike Bishop
Likewise, if you have to read only one excavation report on a Roman fort, it should be James Curle's A Roman Frontier Post and its People (Glasgow 1911), now available on the web. It has never been bettered and most modern reports are turgid wastes of dead trees in comparison. The man was a polymath who wore his learning lightly and one of the unsung Great Names in Romano-British archaeology.
Mike Bishop
