This. The Roman Peace was neither Roman, nor peaceful.https://twitter.com/jpnudell/status/1266148060725420038 …
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Interesting. I figured that would be more likely reported because you’d get contemporaneous accounts. I was actually questioning if casualties is the right figure. It feels like it introduces complications, like tactics. I was hoping that was mitigated somewhat with length.
Contemporaneous accounts for ancient battles are quite rare. Even long-after-the-fact eyewitness testimony is rare and valuable. Far more common that we are dealing with a condensed report by a non-eyewitness of official records/eyewitness testimony, often at centuries distance
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Cool! Thanks for helping me understand this better. I didn’t learn to love history until late in life, and I’ve never really studied these periods.
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Better late than never! Ancient history is a strange creature because our sources are so few and so poor. The contrast I use with my students is that the modern historian has to sip water from a firehouse, the ancient historian finds water in the desert.
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