I keep coming across the claim that the Romans would get dogs to carry fire on their backs and send them against cavalry. Apparently it is in Polybius but I can't find it at all (I'm not sure it is real). Any ideas? @amayor @DrJEBall @BretDevereaux?
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Consequently, our values have begun to shift as 'being a good war-monger' no longer seems like quite so grand an idea to us. So we're now unpacking the legacy of a few thousand years of written history and records which glorify behaviors that have now become maladaptive.
Consequently, reevaluating Napoleon and Alexander, I think, can be seen as part of the leading edge of a society-wide reevaluation of the value of war and bellicosity itself.
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In that context, it's really striking to me how often the reevaluation of these ancient, medieval or early modern figures happens in the shadows of the 'conquerors' of the post-industrial period.
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We can't help but ask why we hate Hitler, Stalin, Saddam Hussein, Idi Amin and other such men who cast themselves in that same role - we can't help but ask why we hate them and yet aren't suppose to hate Alexander or Napoleon or Frederick der Grosse or Caesar.
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