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Oct 11, 2025 · 2.Polybius, the three spies and the forgotten battle of Zama (March 2021). In this paper I discuss some plausible links in the historiography of the three spies` stories and attempt to identify Polybius...
Mar 19, 2023 · It's the translation by the Classical scholar Robin Waterfield (Robin Waterfield - Wikipedia), this is a review of his translation of Polybius (Polybius, The Histories.
Polybius is the go-to man for this question. Not only did he live during an era where a Roman legion facing a Macedonian phalanx still fell under the category of "current events," he had first hand experience with the...
Apr 3, 2022 · Polybius points this out when giving his final thoughts on the First Punic War (1.63-64): 'It had lasted without a break for twenty-four years and is the longest, most unintermittent, and greatest war we...
Oct 11, 2025 · Livy’s re-narrativising of Polybius can be fascinating; he recast history as a moral and national story that the Augustan-era gentry clearly loved. Appian, too, describes the main battle in essential ac...
Dec 2, 2020 · I am curious to know why some nations develop an socially elite/aristocratic warrior class, like European knights or Japanese samurai, while other do not. Knights and Samurai were expected to be martiall...
Jan 25, 2012 · Polybius estimates the number at 70,000 foot and 4000 horse, while Livy gives a figure of 50,000 foot and 4500 horse. Whatever the figures, Scipio was likely outnumbered – his force amounted to 45,000 i...
Aug 22, 2019 · Can anyone recommend the best English translations of the Roman historians: Livy, Sallust, Suetonius, Tacitus, Cassius Dio, Plutarch, Polybius, Diodorus Siculus, Columella? I am looking especially for a...
Jul 12, 2024 · Battle of Magnesia, Near Roman Disaster? I recently read an interesting article by historian Ilkka Syvänne on the Battle of Magnesia. Syvänne presents the battle as a "near disaster" for the Romans and ...
Mar 19, 2023 · Polybius says that you can tell that society is collapsing because male prostitutes cost more than a plot of land. The penality for homosexuality in the legions was death. And on and on. I know these th...
