Invicta | How Did Soldiers Write Letters from the Roman Army? #shorts @InvictaHistory | Uploaded December 2023 | Updated October 2024, 7 hours ago.
Full video: youtu.be/uaZSfRfg_k0 featuring Veteres Milites and @ImperiumRomanumYT
How did Roman soldiers write and send letters from the frontlines? This documentary explores how Roman soldiers connected with their families and friends. We begin by broadly discussing literacy rates and how one would write a letter in the first place. We then discuss how these letters were sent across the Roman Empire through public and private couriers. Finally, we look at the contents of these Roman letters.
Check out more videos in our live history series:
"Death of Roman Soldier" youtube.com/watch?v=8nLauaMK8XE
"Ancient Roman Games" youtube.com/watch?v=l8AFtcNH_-c&t=3s
"How Did Roman Cataphracts Prepare for War?" youtu.be/Ip1H5std7Gs
Credits:
Research = Chris Das Neves
Script = Chris Das Neves
Narration = Guy Michaels
Reenactment = Imperium Romanum, Veteres Milites Sibiu
#shorts #history #rome
Full video: youtu.be/uaZSfRfg_k0 featuring Veteres Milites and @ImperiumRomanumYT
How did Roman soldiers write and send letters from the frontlines? This documentary explores how Roman soldiers connected with their families and friends. We begin by broadly discussing literacy rates and how one would write a letter in the first place. We then discuss how these letters were sent across the Roman Empire through public and private couriers. Finally, we look at the contents of these Roman letters.
Check out more videos in our live history series:
"Death of Roman Soldier" youtube.com/watch?v=8nLauaMK8XE
"Ancient Roman Games" youtube.com/watch?v=l8AFtcNH_-c&t=3s
"How Did Roman Cataphracts Prepare for War?" youtu.be/Ip1H5std7Gs
Credits:
Research = Chris Das Neves
Script = Chris Das Neves
Narration = Guy Michaels
Reenactment = Imperium Romanum, Veteres Milites Sibiu
#shorts #history #rome
![True Size of a Byzantine Army [c. 900 AD] 3D DOCUMENTARY](https://i.ytimg.com/vi/jE48hMEGlPI/hqdefault.jpg "True Size of a Byzantine Army [c. 900 AD] 3D DOCUMENTARY
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A history documentary on the True Size of a Byzantine Army of the Thematic Reforms. We begin the episode with the broad trends of the era which had seen the Roman army transform from legions of heavy infantry to a more eastern, cavalry centric force. This system would face additional shakeups with the advent of the Thematic Reforms which moved from a fully professional force to one of rotating levies. We spend some time discussing the structure of the Themes and how its denizens were called up for war.
Next we introduce the basic soldier types of the Byzantine Army before then organizing them into the ever increasing building blocks of this later Roman army. Finally, once the army is build, we cover its Roman army camp, its army march column, and its deployment in battle.
Timestamps:
00:00 Intro
02:27 Thematic Reforms
05:10 Soldiers
07:01 Kontoveriai (10)
09:26 Allaghion (50)
10:22 Vanda (200)
12:12 Infantry and Archers
13:08 Droungos (1000)
14:11 Tourma (3000)
16:55 Theme (9000)
18:45 Army Analytics
20:16 Army Camp
22:03 Army March
25:22 Army Deployment
28:15 Outro
Sources:
A Tenth-Century Byzantine Military Manual: The Sylloge Tacticorum by Georgios Chatzelis
Warfare, State and Society in the Byzantine World, 565–1204 by John Haldon
Byzantium and Its Army, 284–1081 by Warren T. Treadgold
Byzantine Armies 886–1118 by Osprey Publishing
The Byzantine Army by Charles River
Credits:
Research = Sophia Ware
Script = Sophia Ware
Narration = Guy Michaels
Artwork = Penta Limited
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