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If you'd like to see if you can win a Mark Antony & Octavian quinarius, dated to 40/39 BC, have a look at my thread in the travel section, about mad Roman authors walking in Italy!
This year, I'm repeating the madness of my walk on Hadrian's Wall, in Roman kit, for charity - except I'm doing it in Italy, over 130 miles this time... Just over two weeks until we start marching in Italy, and I am suffering a recurrence of a large blister on one heel. Cursed Roman boots. Aesculapi...
The book HHhH first came to my notice when I saw the highly distinctive cover - it's a great example of eye-catching art: the threatening German uniform, and the face that has been replaced by the 4Hs. Always behind on buying the books I want to read, I only got around to buying it a couple of weeks...
If you're interested in the Varian/Kalkriese disaster in AD/CE 9, you need to buy this fine textbook by Adrian Murdoch. Firstly, there aren't many texts out there on this subject, which is surprising, given that it was one of the greatest defeats that Rome ever suffered. Secondly, the ones that are ...