I feel the need to note that, perhaps tied only with the Battle of the Aegates Islands(
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), the battle of the Teutoburg Forest is probably the best archaeologically attested battle in all of antiquity. https://twitter.com/SarahEBond/status/1382011652112023555 …
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Big if true.
Kiitos. Käytämme tätä aikajanasi parantamiseen. KumoaKumoa
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It’s weird. The basic argument is the war ended without a big battle, and then Scipio made up Zama to glorify himself and Polybius parroted his lies.
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Sort of conspiracy theory masquerading as source criticism.
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No, the thesis is that Hannibal was too awesome to be defeated.
@DrMichaelJTayl1 wrote against it in@ancientwarfare -
Oh gods. This is like the Spartan-adoration thing, isn't it? I guess classical history has that intoxicating mix of high general familiarity, well-developed world-building and gaps in the sources that can attract the kind who want to 'stan rather than understand
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