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and ending with the exile of Romulus Augustulus,
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Mike,
Man, I have to tell you that I love your show. Just discover it this week. I have 1 question for you. Did Hannibal and Scipio really meet face to face? I have not pick up to many books, but I thought the two men never meet face to face. What reference did this information come from?
Your description of Seleucid armies is really terrible. I love your podcast, but don't be so Roman centric. It wasn't some Syrian armies of pathetic levies, it was army of Seleucid Empire, with contingents from Asia Minor to eastern Iran, with war elephants, cataphracts and elite phalangitai. Obviously Roman army proved superior, but outcome of this war was far from foregone conclusion.
Mike,
Man, I have to tell you that I love your show. Just discover it this week. I have 1 question for you. Did Hannibal and Scipio really meet face to face? I have not pick up to many books, but I thought the two men never meet face to face. What reference did this information come from?
Darrell D. Ratliff
Posted by: Account Deleted | July 15, 2009 at 02:20 PM
Your description of Seleucid armies is really terrible. I love your podcast, but don't be so Roman centric. It wasn't some Syrian armies of pathetic levies, it was army of Seleucid Empire, with contingents from Asia Minor to eastern Iran, with war elephants, cataphracts and elite phalangitai. Obviously Roman army proved superior, but outcome of this war was far from foregone conclusion.
Posted by: Marko Maric | January 03, 2012 at 08:12 AM