The Praetorian Guard was an elite unit of the Imperial Roman army that served as personal bodyguards and intelligence agents for the Roman emperors.
The Praetorians Relief with an aquila grasping a thunderbolt through its claws, in reference to the Roman interpretatio graeca form of Jupiter.
Funeral inscription of Quintus Pomponius Poeninus, soldier of the IV Praetorian Cohort
A Praetorian soldier armed with standard Roman weapon in 2nd century AD
The Imperial Roman army was the military land force of the Roman Empire from 27 BC to 476 AD, and the final incarnation in the long history of the Roman army. This period is sometimes split into the Principate and the Dominate (284–476) periods.
Statue of the founder-emperor Augustus in garb of military commander-in-chief
Imperial Roman legionaries in testudo formation, a relief from Glanum, a Roman town in what is now southern France that was inhabited from 27 BC to 260 AD
The Praetorians Relief, from the Arch of Claudius, Rome
Roman and Celtic cavalry in combat. Roman sarcophagus, Dallas Museum of Art, c. 190 A.D.