Cannae, Adrianople and the Comparative Health of the Roman Empire
In its lengthy history, Rome arguably did not suffer a military catastrophe greater than that at Cannae during the Second Punic War in 216 BC and at Adrianople during the Gothic War in 378 AD. Yet not only did Rome recover from both these defeats to win their respective wars, if Rome’s rise and fall...
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Scholarship @ Claremont
2017
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| Online Access: | http://scholarship.claremont.edu/cmc_theses/1691 http://scholarship.claremont.edu/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?article=2628&context=cmc_theses |