Regarding Centurion !

[kambiz]

Hi everyone
I've already finished my first book dedicated to Roman history ,"Imperial ROME at War" published by Concord. Good read BTW

But at the first plate of this book which shows "Legionaries of Caesar's army in action in centeral Gaul c.52 BC" ,the Centurion shouts for relief and as you can see in the picture below ,His costume is not like the Centurions in EB.

See the picture


Centurions of Both Marian and Augutus refroms in EB are like this one which belongs to plate 3 "Legio XIIII make an opposed landing on Anglesey c.60 AD".


I think at least the Cohores Reformata's Centurion should be like the guy depicted in plate 1 ,Shouldn't?

-Kambiz

P.S : As I mentioned ,This one was my first Book(E-Book) regarding ROME. Anyone have more E-Books ,So I would appreciate him/her if share it with me Thanks in advance

[Tellos Athenaios]

IIRC, there's some limitation preventing something with the Reformata & Imperatoria Centurions. But one of the Romani experts would know more about that.

[Philippus Flavius Homovallumus]

That Centurian is wrong, his "shoulder pads" and his iron montefotino helm are fantasy. His sword conforms to no known example and his long red plume should be a transverse crest.

With that said there are issues with our current centurian, the problem is that we have a limitiain on the number of models we can have. As a result we have two centurians, pre- and post-Marian. We are looking at the centurian as he is currently depicted and making some changes but he still won't look at lot like the picture you posted.

[Centurion Crastinus]

Stephen Dando-Collins has written some great books on specific legions. Also, Adrian Goldsworthy has some great books as well.

[Philippus Flavius Homovallumus]

As an academic I'd have to say that both are fairly worthless if you want a genuine understanding of the Roman military, treat with extreme caution.

[bovi]

Perhaps you'd like to suggest better literature?