04-12-2006, 12:12 AM
Thanks Jasper, Caratacus and Kate,
This is what comes from relying soley on memory for far too much of the time. C.R. Alcock is the author of a different book on my shelves.
I agree with Kate. Speidel's paper was very convincing until I read the article by Alston two years later. Richard Alston casts doubt on a number of Speidel's (both the elder and the younger's) conclusions and at the same time advances the case for equality of legionary and auxiliary pay. I think that Alston's paper is the more important to read but I would still read Speidel's first, both for the clarity of the presentation of the evidence and the display of very clever thinking. Alston then comes in to present less information than Speidel but a much better case (it occurs to me here that it is a good six years since I last read either of these articles and perhaps I should take my own advice and read them again before I say anything more).
Crispvs
This is what comes from relying soley on memory for far too much of the time. C.R. Alcock is the author of a different book on my shelves.
I agree with Kate. Speidel's paper was very convincing until I read the article by Alston two years later. Richard Alston casts doubt on a number of Speidel's (both the elder and the younger's) conclusions and at the same time advances the case for equality of legionary and auxiliary pay. I think that Alston's paper is the more important to read but I would still read Speidel's first, both for the clarity of the presentation of the evidence and the display of very clever thinking. Alston then comes in to present less information than Speidel but a much better case (it occurs to me here that it is a good six years since I last read either of these articles and perhaps I should take my own advice and read them again before I say anything more).
Crispvs
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