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Scipio Aemilianus: The Roman Who Destroyed Carthage and Numantia

Roman Empire Times 04 Oct 2026
The period after the Macedonian war also brought him into close contact with Polybius ... Polybius says that the relationship began through books and conversations and eventually became sufficiently close to be widely known ... Polybius, Histories.
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Roman Colonies: How Rome Turned Conquest Into Control

Roman Empire Times 03 Oct 2026
Rome's wars in Italy did not end when an enemy army surrendered ... Credits ... Horace White ... Polybius could describe the Gauls as driven from the Po Valley, yet other evidence shows that substantial Gallic populations remained ... Polybius, Histories 2.21.
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Edicta Munerum: How Romans Advertised Gladiator Games

Roman Empire Times 16 Sep 2026
A gladiatorial spectacle began well before anyone entered the amphitheatre ... Phyrexian, CC BY-SA 4.0 ... Celer, Polybius, Ocella, Magus, Primus, Sextianus and Secundus among them ... Polybius inserted his name inside the O of dedicatione in CIL IV 1177 ... ....
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The Battle of Pydna: How Rome Broke the Macedonian Phalanx

Roman Empire Times 09 Sep 2026
Polybius preserves Paullus's recollection of the fear inspired by the phalanx, while Livy and Plutarch both describe the later fragmentation of the Macedonian formation ... Polybius's full narrative of the battle has been lost.
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The Roman Rudis: The Award That Ended a Gladiator’s Service

Roman Empire Times 01 Sep 2026
Both Polybius and Livy describe mock combat with wooden or blunted weapons ... Polybius describes wooden swords in the corresponding exercise and adds that they were fitted with leather and protective “buttons.”.
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A Roman’s Manual for Survival

Roman Empire Times 10 Aug 2026
Polybius, too, saw in history a manual for life and politics.“The knowledge of history is a very trustworthy education and training for political affairs, and the most excellent—even the ...
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