文档介绍：THE ROMAN
INVASION OF
BRITAIN
To the memory of
Donald Dudley
Graham Webster
THE ROMAN
INVASION OF
BRITAIN
London and New York
First published 1980 by . Batsford Ltd
Revised edition 1993
Routledge is an imprint of the Taylor & Francis Group
This edition published in the Taylor & Francis e-Library, 2003.
© 1980, 1993 Graham Webster
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Contents
Preface 7
Preface to the Revised Edition 8
Acknowledgments 9
List of Illustrations 10
Introduction 13
1 The Sources of Evidence 15
2 The Celts and Julius Caesar 31
3 The Tribes of South-East Britain and their Rulers 41
4 The Opposing Forces 76
5 The Invasion and Advance to Camulodunum 94
6 The Shape of the Roman Province 111
7 The Claudian Celebrations and Departure of Plautius 168
References 173
Appendices:
Translation of Dio 200
The number of units in the army of Plautius 203
Abbreviations 204
Bibliographical references 205
a) ancient sources
b) modern works
Glossary of Latin terms 206
Glossary of technical terms 210
Place names in the modern and Roman forms 211
Index 214
5
Preface
My interest in the Roman invasion and early campaigns in Britain
was first aroused by an investigation of the legionary fortress at Lincoln,
1938–4