Shoes of Roman children correct myth about military life


“For a really long time, until the 1990s, really, no one thought about or studied families in the Roman army because soldiers weren’t legally allowed to marry,” Greene said. “It was a bastion of masculinity – this masculine, male-dominated environment and no one placed women and children there. But when you look at the material and historical record, there’s a lot of evidence of women and children there. One piece of evidence is these children’s shoes, and we have shoes from the very beginning.”