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AWA337 - Legions and Foederati
Murray answers four questions in just one episode sent in by David:
1. Were the legions largely (or even completely) replaced by the foederati by the seventh century CE?
2. What do we know about the ethnic makeup of the armies that fought for pagan Rome in the wars of the first centuries BCE and CE (largely legionaries from southern Europe?) compared to the armies that fought for Byzantine Rome in the seventh-century wars (largely "barbarians"?), including Heraclius's reconquest of Jerusalem in 628 CE from the Persian Sassanid empire?
3. Do you have a view (either way) on the argument—made…
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