Who Is Your Favorite

[pompeius magnus]

My man would be Maximus Fabius the delayer, pretty famous but just going with the trend, his tacticts inspired Scipio and if not for some opposers in the senate Hannibal may have been forced to leave Italy by 215 instead of later on.

[P.Clodius]

Yes I like Quintus Fabius Maximus too. His tactics made perfect sense to me!

[Hamilcar Barca]

Xanthippus who final beat Marcus and had him captured. He died in captivity.

 

 

Actually, it was a little more colourful than that, Dio Cassius gave an account of his brutal torture by the Carthaginians:

 

 

[Guest Scanderbeg]

I wonder if there is any truth to that. Goldsworthy seemed to not have believed the story. If I remember correctly he stated that the story was told to make up for the fact that his famly did not treat their Punic slaves well, which was also a probable myth.

I believe it is probably just a false. Wasn't there another story saying that he was tied to the floor and trampled by elaphants?

[Hamilcar Barca]

The story of Regulus' death is heavily Romanticised and I don't know whether its true or not, no one seems too, but Cassius does give an awfully explicit description. I hadn't heard of the elephants though, who mentioned them?

 

Hamilcar liked using elephants though, he had thousands of rebels trampled during the Truceless War following reports that Spendius had 700 Carthaginians brutally tortured of which Polybius vividly described.

[Guest Scanderbeg]

who mentioned them?

 

 

Goldsworthy mentions it as one of the tales of Regulus death.

 

Off note: I was actually surprised at the description Goldsworthy gave when he went over the sack of Carthago Nova by Scipio's army. The accounts of brutality on the Roman side seemed way higher than I had imagined.

[Caesar]

Deffinetly Julius Caesar (Cant you tell from my post name?)

 

He was not only a man of the people who challenged the inefficent corrupt senate, but he was a heroic soldier, military leader, and even champion of the arts and sciences.

 

Second to him, I would have to say Marius.

[P.Clodius]

Caesar is VERY famous. The topic is NOT so famous. Pick another Caesar

[Germanicus Nero]

Germanicus Caesar son of Drusus. Damn that Tiberius!

[Germanicus Nero]

The story of Cinncinatus is quite compelling as well.

[Primus Pilus]

Split the Germanicus discussion to its own thread Death of Germanicus

[M. Porcius Cato]

Aside from my namesake, I'd choose Decimus Brutus. Somewhere I read that when Octavian and Antony published their proscriptions and offered a reward for each of the heads of the proscribed, Decimus Brutus countered with an even larger reward for whomever brought the proscribed to him. Very Scarlet Pimpernel.

 

Actually, my first choice for a screen name was Decimus Brutus (not that I regret my own).

Edited December 30, 2005 by M. Porcius Cato

[Princeps]

Lepidus. Chief Praetorian (I think), part of the Octavian "Triumvirate" (Octavian, Antony, Lepidus).

[FLavius Valerius Constantinus]

Is this like for a movie. Well, my personal favorite is Constantinus Magnus.

[Neos Dionysos]

Emperor Galienus. All of the problems he faced and the severity of the situations yet, he was able to maintain and strengthen what he took on and also helped create the transitioning from the classical Imperial Army to that of the one of the late period.