Tiberius Claudius Maximus: The Cavalryman (Rebuilding the Past)

Tiberius Claudius Maximus: The Cavalryman (Rebuilding the Past) by Connolly, Peter. hardcover edition. ISBN: 9780199171064.

Tiberius Claudius Maximus served under the emperor Trajan in the great wars in Central Europe and the Middle East. He was decorated three times for bravery and became famous for hunting down Romes great enemy, Decebalus. This volume and its companion (see below) trace the soldiers career from the day he entered the Seventh Legion on the Danube frontier to the day he retired as a cavalry officer in Mesopotamia some thirty years later. Connolly calls on a vast array of archaeological material to provide a unique portrait of the life of an ordinary man who lived during an extraordinary period in Western history.