Mark Antony's Heroes: How the Third Gallica Legion Saved an Apostle and Created an Emperor

304 Pages·2008·1.1 MB·English

by  Stephen Dando-Collins

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Mark Antony’s
Heroes
:
How the Third Gallica
Legion Saved an Apostle and
created an Emperor
Stephen Dando-Collins
John Wiley & Sons, Inc.
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Mark Antony’s
Heroes
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Mark Antony’s
Heroes
:
How the Third Gallica
Legion Saved an Apostle and
created an Emperor
Stephen Dando-Collins
John Wiley & Sons, Inc.
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CONTENTS
:
Atlas vii
Acknowledgments xi
Author’s Note xiii
i Get Up and Fight! 1
ii For Pompey, Caesar, and Antony 4
iii The Parthian Invasion 12
iv Routing the Parthians 25
v Putting King Herod on His Throne 40
vi Mark Antony’s Mistake 47
vii The Bloody Retreat 58
viii The Sun-Worshipping 3rd 71
ix Riot Duty in Jerusalem 76
x Saving the Apostle Paul a Second Time 93
xi To Caesar You Shall Go 99
xii The Centurion’s Decision 105
xiii Cast Up on Malta 114
xiv In Nero’s Rome 119
xv Fanning the Flames of Revolt 125
xvi Victims of the Jewish Uprising 133
xvii The Heroes of Ascalon 136
xviii The Execution of a Troublesome Jew 145
xix Blood for Blood 148
xx Slaughtering the Sarmatians 160
xxi To Italy, to Make an Emperor 168
xxii Prelude to a Disaster 187
xxiii The Bloodbath of Cremona 198
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xxiv Storming Rome 220
xxv Thanks to the 3rd Gallica 238
appendix a Imperial Roman Military Ranks and Their 247
Modern-Day Equivalents
appendix b The German Guard 251
appendix c Sources 257
Glossary 267
Index 273
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ATLAS
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1. The Roman World, First Century b.c.–a.d. First Century
2. The Roman East, First Century b.c.–a.d. First Century
3. The City of Rome, a.d. First Century
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