Preview   Although slingers were a frequent component of ancient armies, their role receives relatively little attention in both the ancient sources and modern scholarship, overshadowed by the higher status cavalry and heavy infantry. It is a shortcoming that Lawrence Keppie’s Slingers and sling bullets in the Roman civil wars of the late Republic, 90-31 … Continue reading Slingers and sling bullets in the Roman civil wars of the late Republic, 90-31 BC