The Auxilia of the Roman Army

The scholarship available on the Auxilia of the Roman Army.

General

  • Campbell, D.B., Roman Auxiliary Forts: 27 BC-AD 378, Oxford, 2009.
  • Dixon, K.R. & Southern, P., Roman cavalry from the first to the third century AD, London, 1992.
  • Holder, P.A., The Auxilia from Augustus to Trajan, BAR Int. Ser. 70, Oxford, 1980.

Further Reading

  • Coulston, J.C., ‘Roman archery equipment’, in M.C. Bishop (ed.), The Production and Distribution of Roman Military Equipment. Proceedings of the Second Roman Military Equipment Research Seminar, Oxford, 1985, 220-366.
  • Cowan, R., Roman Guardsman 62 BC-AD 324, Oxford, 2014.
  • D’Amato, R., Roman Army Units in the Western Provinces, 31 BC-AD 195, Oxford, 2016.
  • D’Amato, R., Roman Army Units in the Eastern Provinces, 31 BC-AD 195, Oxford, 2017.
  • D’Amato, R., Roman Standards & Standard-Bearers: 112 BC-AD 192, Oxford, 2018.
  • D’Amato, R. & Negin, A., Roman Heavy Cavalry: Cataphractarii & Clibanarii, 1st Century BC-5th Century AD, Oxford, 2018.
  • Davies, R.W., ‘Cohortes equitatae’, Historia 20, 1971, 751-63 in Davies 1989, 141-51.
  • Fields, N., Roman Auxiliary Cavalryman: AD 14-193, Oxford, 2006.
  • Garbsch, J., ‘The oldest military diploma from the province  of Dacia’, in Maxfield & Dobson 1991, 281-84.
  • Hassall, M., ‘The internal planning of Roman auxiliary forts’, in B.R. Hartley and J. Wacher (ed.), Rome and Her Northern Provinces, Gloucester, 1983, 96-131.
  • Haynes, I., ‘Military service and cultural identity in the auxilia’, Goldsworthy & Haynes 1999, 165-74.
  • Hyland, A., Equus. The Horse in the Roman World, London, 1990.
  • Johnson, A., Roman Forts of the 1st and 2nd Centuries AD in Britain and the German Provinces, London, 1983.
  • Junkelmann, M., Die Reiter Roms I-III, Mainz, 1990-92.
  • MacDowall, S., Late Roman Cavalryman: AD 236-565, Oxford, 1995.
  • Saddington, D.B., ‘The development of the Roman auxiliary forces from Augustus to Trajan’, ANRW II.3, 1975, 176-201.
  • Spaul, J., Ala 2. The Auxiliary Cavalry Units of the Pre-Diocletianic Imperial Roman Army, Andover, 1994. 
  • Spaul, J., Cohors 2. The Evidence for and a Short History of the Auxiliary Infantry Units of the Imperial Roman Army, Oxford, 2000. 
  • Speidel, M.P., ‘The pay of the auxilia’, JRS 63, 1973, 141-47.
  • Speidel, M.P., ‘The rise of ethnic units in the Roman imperial army’, ANRW II.3, 1975, 202-31.
  • Speidel, M.P., Riding for Caesar. The Roman Emperors’ Horse Guard, London, 1994.
  • Starr, C.G., The Roman Imperial Navy, 31BC-AD324, Chicago, 1941.
  • Southern, P., ‘The numeri of the Roman imperial army’, Britannia 20, 1989, 81-140.