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The obvious fault as such is the colour given to the Roman tunics - we know now that unbleached linen was the predominant cloth used (i.e. off-white). Even the idea or red for centurions is incorrect I believe; their greater pay allowed them to purchase tunics of better cloth and any colour (though red was lucky in Roman belief).
How are/were the tunic colours wrong?
I have both, Warry's book in a french translation, Connolly's in the 1981 edition. Yes Peter Connolly may have been sometimes slightly out of the mainstream scholar interpretation of ancient sources (spartan unit organization was it?). Anyway, he was ALSO such a gifted artist! so much more than Angus Mc Bride who just didn't know how to draw a human body. And take his third century roman cataphractarius picture: he was way ahead of his time, the Phil Barker and WRG times, when this military dress was rejected as invention... until everybody discovered that this was the most probable dress of these soldiers at the time, the Dura Europos graffito being probably a Persian or Palmyrenian variant. Nobody did miniatures of this at the time, everybody following Barker, but now this is the other way round. Geat man Mr Connolly.Philippe