By Julius Caesar

An army chief of mythical genius, Caesar was once additionally an exceptional author, recording the occasions of his lifestyles with incomparable immediacy and tool. The Civil struggle is a stressful and gripping depiction of his fight with Pompey over the management of Republican Rome - a clash that spanned the complete Roman global, from Gaul and Spain to Asia and Africa. the place Caesar's personal account leaves off in forty eight BC, his lieutenants take in the historical past, describing the very important battles of Munda, Spain and Thapsus, and the install of Cleopatra, later Caesar's mistress, as Queen of Egypt. jointly those narratives paint a whole photo of the occasions that introduced Caesar preferrred energy - and lead the way for his assassination purely months later.

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As we would expect, Reculver-Regulbium offers an almost archetypal plan of an installation of the early 3rd century AD. In the surviving portion the metalled surfaces of the via principalis, via praetoria and via sagularis have been uncovered on a number of occasions during excavation. The stone-built principia, complete with underground strong room beneath its sacellum, occupied the standard central location, while buildings away from the central range served as barrack blocks, workshops and other ancillary functions (Philp 1996).

They are stationed at Grannona and Marcis respectively (ND Occ. XXXVII14, XXXVIII6). Johnson, who believes that Saxon Shore meant ‘shore attacked by Saxons’, argues for the wider application of the term along the coast of Gaul. For him, the forts of the Gallic Saxon Shore would have been located on the stretch of coast opposite that defended by their counterparts on the Britannic coast. qxd Lutetia TRAC TUS ARM ORI CAN US Loir e Augustodunum been part of the system. To this he adds Grannona from the command of the dux tractus Armoricani et Nervicani as the westernmost component of the original Saxon Shore system on the Gallic coast.

As we shall see, their boats were relatively seaworthy and constructed in a way that allowed landing on an open coast. During a sea voyage these were manoeuvred close inshore and navigation was carried out using landmarks. A coastal target, Britannia had always been an accessible landfall for Germanic raiders who dashed across the ‘narrow sea’ after hugging the Gallic coastline south from northern Germania. The Saxon Shore forts were placed so as to deter such maritime raids. The original (Mainz A) was a wide, flat-bottomed vessel with near vertical sides.

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