Le glaive et l'autel. Camps et piété militaires sous le Haut-Empire romain. Archéologie généralité in Athens and in the

in Athens and in the Demes In Court

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Le glaive et l'autel. Camps et piété militaires sous le Haut-Empire romain. Archéologie généralité in Athens and in theAlthough their army was one of the best of antiquity, the Romans attributed their success less to the excellence of their weapons than to their piety towards the gods. This conviction was shared by the soldiers themselves, as evidenced by the hundreds of religious inscriptions erected in military camps during the Empire that have come down to us. The rise of these dedications is linked to the development, between the 1st and 3rd centuries AD, of