Riding for Caesar: The Roman Emperor's horse Guards
Language: English
Published by Harvard University Press, Cambridge, MA, 1994
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Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 1994. Trade paperback. FINE. As new - gift quality. 223 indexed, annotated pages with bibliography. "Follows the horse guards in political maneuvers and on the battlefield, from Caesar to Constantine. Offers a colorful picture of them in all their changing guises and duties - as the emperor's bodyguard or his parade troops, as a training school and officer's academy for the Roman Army, or as a shock force in the endless wars of the second and third centuries.".
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- Title
- Riding for Caesar: The Roman Emperor's horse Guards
- Author
- Speidel, Michael P.
- Publisher
- Harvard University Press, Cambridge, MA
- Publication year
- 1994
- Condition
- FINE
- Binding
- Trade paperback
- Language
- English
- ISBN 10
- 0674768981
- ISBN 13
- 9780674768987
Caesar praised them in his Commentaries. Trajan had them carved on his Column. Hadrian wrote poems about them. Well might these rulers have immortalized the horse guard, whose fortunes so closely kept pace with their own. Riding for Caesar follows these horsemen from their rally to rescue Caesar at Noviodunum in 52 BC to their last stand alongside Maxentius at the Milvian Bridge. It offers a colorful picture of these horsemen in all their changing guises and duties―as the emperor’s bodyguard or his parade troops, as a training school and officer’s academy for the Roman army, or as a shock force in the endless wars of the second and third centuries.
Written by one of the world’s leading authorities on the Roman army, this history reveals the remarkable part the horse guard played in the fate of the Roman empire.
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