Why You Wouldn't Survive a Single Rank in the Roman Legion

You've been passed over for a promotion. It stings — but in the Roman legion, being passed over was the LUCKY outcome. Every rung you climbed handed you a new and specific way to die. March in the sandals of a raw tiro and find out why survival got harder with every promotion — from the killing pace of training, to decimation (where your own side beats 1 in 10 men to death), to the deadliest job in the army: standing at the very front. Along the way you'll meet the real Roman military writer Vegetius and the historian Polybius, plus modern scholars Adrian Goldsworthy, Sara Elise Phang, and Alan Bowman, whose work on the Vindolanda tablets shows what life in the ranks was actually like. If this made you glad you were born 2,000 years too late — drop a like, tell me in the comments which rank you'd survive, and subscribe for more. #AncientRome #RomanEmpire #RomanLegion #RomanArmy #Rome #Legionary #SPQR #RomanSoldier #AncientHistory #Decimation #Centurion #Vegetius #MilitaryHistory #Vindolanda #RomanHistory #Legion #History