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The Roman conquests of Macedonia in the 2nd century BC led directly to the extension of their authority over the troublesome tribes of Thrace to the south of the Danube. But their new neighbour on the other side of the mighty river, the kingdom of the Dacians, was to pose an increasing threat to the Roman empire. Inevitably this eventually provoked Roman attempts at invasion and conquest. It is a measure of Dacian prowess and resilience that several tough campaigns were required over more than a century before their kingdom was added to the Roman Empire. It was one of the Empire's last major acquisitions (and a short-lived one at that). Dr Michael Schmitz traces Roman involvement in the Danube region from first contact with the Thracians after the Third Macedonian War in the 2nd century BC to the ultimate conquest of Dacia by Trajan in the early years of the 2nd Century AD. Like the other volumes in this series, this book gives a clear narrative of the course of these wars, explaining how the Roman war machine coped with formidable new foes and the challenges of unfamiliar terrain and climate. Specially-commissioned colour plates bring the main troop types vividly to life in meticulously-researched detail. 8pp colour illustrations… (plus d'informations)
The work under review is the eighth in a series titled ‘Roman Conquests’, each volume covering a region of the empire. Unlike other studies in the series, here the emphasis is placed on a stretch of the frontier and concentrates on the events leading up to the imperial border being established on the Danube (for military operations in the Balkans) and the conquest of Dacia. Chronologically it spans a period between c. 230 BC and AD 180, with the Marcomannic wars being the last major conflict discussed.
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I would like to dedicate this book to Bob Estrich. From the very beginning, when you took pity on a pair of poverty-stricken university students with a young baby and kept our computer running, to the end when you were helping us renovate our first house, a truer friend there hasn't been, I like to think this is the book you would have wanted me to write. A friend and lover of history lost too soon. 'What have the Romans ever done for us?'
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The Danube frontier posed a continuous and serious threat to the Roman Empire from at least the time the first Roman general, Curio, reached the river in the 70s BC.
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In the end even these measures did not prove sufficient to maintain the integrity of the Danubian frontier, eventually leading to the fall of the Western Empire.
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The Roman conquests of Macedonia in the 2nd century BC led directly to the extension of their authority over the troublesome tribes of Thrace to the south of the Danube. But their new neighbour on the other side of the mighty river, the kingdom of the Dacians, was to pose an increasing threat to the Roman empire. Inevitably this eventually provoked Roman attempts at invasion and conquest. It is a measure of Dacian prowess and resilience that several tough campaigns were required over more than a century before their kingdom was added to the Roman Empire. It was one of the Empire's last major acquisitions (and a short-lived one at that). Dr Michael Schmitz traces Roman involvement in the Danube region from first contact with the Thracians after the Third Macedonian War in the 2nd century BC to the ultimate conquest of Dacia by Trajan in the early years of the 2nd Century AD. Like the other volumes in this series, this book gives a clear narrative of the course of these wars, explaining how the Roman war machine coped with formidable new foes and the challenges of unfamiliar terrain and climate. Specially-commissioned colour plates bring the main troop types vividly to life in meticulously-researched detail. 8pp colour illustrations
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