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Life And Letters On The Roman Frontier

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Hello all. Very interesting site you are running.

Ive recently read the book Life and letters on the Roman Frontier. It lacks the sweep of Colleen McCullough's books but is very interesting none the less. In the 1970s archaeologists in Britain began to unearth wooden writing tablets. It is with the translation of these that the book concerns its self.

I found the scholarship a little dry but the letters and fragments themselves were very revealing, the idea that these literate Roman soldiers, camped on the farthest reaches of that huge Empire (truly facing the Barbarians at the gate) were still like soldiers everywhere concerned with food, family and wrangling transfers to warmer climes.

 

I believe a newer edition is due to be published perhaps with even more insights into antiquity.

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