Even centuries after its fall, the roman army is still very often used as a topic in hollywood movies, historical novels and documentaries. It stayed so interesting for us today, because the roman army was the most advanced and best equipped army of its time and had to perform a wide and complex range of military and civilian tasks. There is a huge amount of archaeological evidences and historical sources, so we are able to reconstruct roman military equipment from the smallest nail from a sole of a caliga up to the big and complex siege engines. Reconstructions can be made as detailed as it is needed for using them practically and so they allow us to bring much activities of the everyday military duty back to life.
The I. ROEMERCOHORTE OPLADEN e.V. accepts this enjoyable challange and tries to meet it. The focus of the activites is not set on spectacular sceneries with a mass of soldiers envolved in a fight, but rather on the impartiation of as much exciting and vivid details of a soldiers life as possible. Those details should help to see and understand a roman soldier as part of a sophisticated army and to get the context of his environment.
