How dangerous would a zombie apocalypse be for the Roman Empire?

How dangerous would a zombie apocalypse be for the Roman Empire?

Can we have more context please

Already happened, the Romans were able to handle it.

the zombie virus is a city spread disease.
if population groups don't spread very far, human societies outside large cities are less vulnerable to zombies and tribal groups are often much better at fighting in aggregate then rome,
the black plague likely will be the best equivalent to what your looking for, the first one that hit the east empire just before the rise of Islam.
Some villages will become full zombie realms
the cities will be necropolis.
they would be more willing to put entire populations to the torch so there would be a good number of imperial hold outs.
roman camps will be generally solid.
Roman Africa will likely be okay
Arabs would be fine.
China is likely fucked FUCKED
Any island that is not under roman control is fine, see Irish.
mongols, Germans, brits, scots, likely uneffected.
Sumeria is likely fucked, India is going to be some what fucked and not fucked depending on the terrain, zombies suck at climbing mountains.
north American natives don't even give a shit.
Most Africans don't give a shit.

If it's a night of the living dead, all the dead rise without a virus then everyone is sort of fucked, but there are ways around it, until food rises

>Roman Africa will likely be okay
What? Roman Africa was full of densely populated cities with strong trade connections. Alexandria, Carthage, Cyrene and most of the coastal cities (i.e. most of Roman Africa) are all going to be fucked.

Also, you're assuming this disease would spread beyond the near-east. All depictions of zombies as a virus or otherwise have an incubation period of a few days at best, almost instantaneous at worst. Nor do zombies wander meaningfully otuside of immediate prey. This isn't like the black death, where you had a week or two of incubation and rats/fleas could be carried innocously; nobody's going to "accidentally" bring a zombie on a trade caravan all the way from Neapolis to Chang'an. Even if the entirety of Europe and Persia fell prey, the odds of a zombie making it all the way through Central Asia to the Deccan or East Asia is unlikely unless there are nonhuman vectors, or the virus itself is airborne (which goes against the conventional idea of zombies).

You just burn the bodies instead of bury them.

The initial waves of Zombies get cut down by the experiences legionaries and then they institutionalize body burning.

Populations were way to small and spread out for the zombie hordes to really get the momentum going to actually be a threat.

Literally any civilization in history would curbstomp a zombie 'apocalypse'.

>Look out, that melee combatant significantly less dangerous than a gaul woman is shambling towards us at half walking speed

>Could the Romans defeat an army of retarded lepers?

Hmm...tough call OP.

user, i did mention that
Bit the big one with roman Africa though not sure what ass i was speaking out of.
>incubation of a period of a few days
it doesn't necessarily have to, the op was asking about it likely for a setting and one can take liberties for story telling
Regardless if you do want a rough approximation black death is the best one you could get for a setting's draft. entire villages of zombies.
mortality rate in cities being up to 90% even more with the losses creating more.

>nonhuman vectors
i did mention that in passing, it's a shame we don't discuss it often. zombie animals, that's the apocalypse. zombie humans not so much.

1. that's conventional warfare, what makes it a threat it it happens before people could communicate or really understand what is happening, like a zombie rebellion or riot.
2. zombies also don't die as easily as Gallic women. Chest wounds, arm wounds shit like that more likely to infect you if it's a blood borne virus and people aren't going to know how to deal with it right out the bat

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