""Aethiops quidam e Numero Militari" - Black Africans" Topic
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| Tango01 | 02 Nov 2019 10:41 p.m. PST |
… in the Roman Army "The question of whether black Africans served in the Roman army comes up with surprising frequency on social media. It's a contentious topic, related to various contemporary debates about ethnicity, multiculturalism, and the representation of history. Often these discussions generate considerably more heat than light, but as I was recently asked about an African centurion who appeared in my first novel, War at the Edge of the World, I though I might share a few thoughts about one of the few scraps of evidence we possess for the ethnicity of Roman soldiers…"
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