"Hoplites, schmoplites" - Artaxerxes, probablyhttps://twitter.com/askhistorians/status/1462859425639583747 …
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To be fair to Polybius, he notes, "it is better to give battle with half as many infantry as the enemy and an overwhelming force of cavalry than to be in all respects equal" (Plb. 3.117). Or the shorthand I use, "cavalry superiority covereth a multitude of sins."
I sometimes wonder, if we had all of Polybius, if we'd be writing papers about how inconsistent he seems to be sometimes with himself. Like, Fortune rules all of the affairs of men, but also Roman dominance was inevitable from 264 onward.
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Is this a common trope for most ancient historians? Trying to balance evidence and human agency with faith/belief in gods? I’m deep in Procopius atm and he’s often “God willed it/ because of these factors”.
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Polybios is especially bad about it because one of his main lessons is that Tyche is all-powerful and sometimes human agency just counts for nothing. But Also Rome Is Just Better Than You
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