Was the idea that homosexualy being common in Ancient Greece wrong . . . 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 Oxford World’s Classics – Bryn Mawr Classical Review), you can find it on Amazon: Amazon product ASIN 0199534705
Greatest number of war elephants ever used? | Page 3 - History Forum That said, Polybius takes great pains to describe the Lagid army and the poor state it was in prior to Raphia This army had not campaigned in the field for almost a generation and Polybius provides a detailed description of its reformation, rearmament, recruitment and training - infantry and cavalry alike
Hannibal at Cannae: Myth or Reality | History Forum Polybius is by far considered the better source not Livy Livy makes numerous errors in his narrative Polybius is much less biased visited the sites of battles and even the Alps The army at Zama was 50,000 strong and several Carthaginian armies had been deatroyed Spain was lost and Punic citizens disnt usually fight in the army
Europe Top 100 Last Spot Voting: Round 2 Match 2 Interestingly, at the larger battle of Ilipa, Polybius is probably to be preferred again with his larger estimate of the assembled Carthaginian force - about 70,000 infantry and 4,000 cavalry (Book 11 20 2) for Livy's 50,000 infantry and 4,500 horse, but the latter does also write, 'some writers state that 70,000 foot-soldiers were brought to the city of Silpia' (clearly alluding to at least
Carthaginian Generals and inscribing their history? The fact is that I found on the Lacinian promontory a bronze tablet on which Hannibal himself had made out these lists during the time he was in Italy, and thinking this an absolutely first-rate authority, decided to follow the document (Polybius, 3 33)
Second Punic War: evaluate Carthages chances to victory After ‘unexpectedly swift success’ in Catalonia but with ‘great loss’ (an apparent contradiction by Polybius, and I doubt the latter is true), the subaltern Hanno was left in Catalonia with 11,000 men ‘from Hannibal’s own army’ (Polybius, 3 35 5) and specifically - and this is where Livy can be preferred with the detail - to
Have any of you read? | History Forum - historum. com Have any of you read: Homer Herodutus Thucydides Plutarch Polybius Livy Tacitus Suetonius Pliny - Elder or Younger Cassius Dio Julius Caesar's Gallic wars or Civil War Cicero Josephus Or, any other ancient historian I may have left out?
How did the ancient legendary Macedonian soldiers, the Silver Shields . . . Thus either Polybius' 16 deep phalanx is the result of Philip doubling depth to that or, if 16 deep is the normal fighting depth, Philip fought 32 deep A 32 deep phalanx is highly unlikely on a ridge and even less likely, in pure frontage terms (some 340 metres depending upon actual numbers), to take on the Roman left)
Do you really believe that Celts used to fight naked - History Forum About Polybius on the Celtic swords, this is the translation from W R Paton: Upon the Gauls slashing first at the spears and making their swords unserviceable the Romans came to close quarters, having rendered the enemy helpless by depriving them of the power of raising their hands and cutting, which is the peculiar and only stroke of the
Top 10 Macedonian-Greek Generals of the Hellenistic Era (323 BCE- 30BCE) Well, Polybius, whom Diodorus is in sync with on this, praises Xanthippus for his ‘brilliant and exceptional achievements’ (Book 1 36 2), adding he was prudent to ‘after a little time sail for home’ due to the likelihood of succumbing to peril in a foreign land after gaining such substantial success