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Life In The Roman Army: Post 3rd 

Century Crisis

By: David McConville

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Introduction

• For my final project I have decided toreconstruct the daily life of a Roman Soldier Inthe Late Empire.

• To do this it took another of sources fromvarious archaeological publications, historicalliterature and even translated copies ofancient texts.

• To accomplish this I decided to do a comicstrip.

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How Does It Turn Out?

• The project itself was long, slow andsometimes presented setbacks.

• Due to the limited size of written text I could

use for exposition, the language itself had tobe short and simplified.

• Due to the Notitia Dignitatum being a 15th 

century copy of the original, shield patternsused might not be as spot on, but stillsomewhat accurate in a worst case scenario.

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What’s It’s structure? 

• The Comic Strip itself is made into 14 sets of

panels, 4 panels each. Thus there are 56

panels in all

• Everything is in black and white, drawn in

pencil and later in pen.

• Most of the text was edited in Paint due to

scanning problems.

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What’s it about? 

• The story starts off with an unspecified student

being sent back in time by the narrator (Cupid) to

discover what life was like in the Roman military.

• The ‘hero’ starts off in Roman Britain where he is

later posted along Hadrian’s Wall where he

discovers what to wear, what to eat and how the

fort functions before setting off to explore thewider military infrastructure in the rest of the

Western Empire.

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What’s It Called? 

•The Roman Mashup!

• It’s a mashup of a lot of different sources are

mashed together, so why not?

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