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The most BRUTAL punishment in history
Life in the Roman army was brutal, even when not actively fighting bloodthirsty Carthaginians or rebellious gladiators.
Military discipline was strict and punishments were often harsh.

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Appian. The Civil Wars. I. 18-19. Loeb Classics Edition. 1913

Lendon, J. E. 2005. Soldiers & Ghosts: A History of Battle in Classical Antiquity. New Haven: Yale UP

Phang, S. E. 2008. Roman Military Service: Ideologies of Discipline in the Late Republic and Early Principate. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2008.


Goldberg, C. 2016. Decimation in the Roman Republic. The Classical Journal, 111(2), 141-164.

The Cruelty of Roman Military Punishments: Decimation in Practice. By Karan L. Pickford


G. R. Watson, The Roman Soldier(Ithaca: Cornell University Press, 1969),

Roman Military Service: Ideologies of Discipline in the Late Republic and Early Principate by Sara Elise Phang

The Roman Soldier
By George Ronald Watson



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