The Roman Empire was created and controlled ... The minimum term of service for a soldier during the first century AD was twenty years. Each legionnaire (or 'miles') carried a short sword, called ...

They first invaded Britain in 55 BC, by 79 AD the Roman army came here ... were called centurions. And each century was spilt up into ten groups of eight soldiers called a contuberniam.

Why was the first century so turbulent ... their people believed they could outgun anyone and everyone else. If an army grew dissatisfied, the emperor was in trouble; if dissatisfaction spread ...

The tomb is believed to belong to a soldier nicknamed "Flaccus ... the remains to the first half of the first century CE, coinciding with the early Roman establishment of Coriovallum in the ...

Martial, a Roman poet writing in the first century A.D., for instance, describes a cinaedus’ dysfunctional penis ... All are afraid to challenge this fierce opponent until a “cinaedus” volunteers to ...