The threat of a Germanic invasion had nearly bought Rome to its knees. Yet the Romans would rally and change their way of fighting, but this would affect the long term stability of the Republic.
The Cimbrian War: A New Roman War Machine — Roman Imperium
To follow up yesterday’s post about Helen’s Consent Athenaios, Deipnosophists, 13, 10, 560b “[It is clear] that the greatest wars also happened because of women. The Trojan War happened because of Helen; the Plague because of Chryseis; Achilles’ rage because of Briseis; and the War called the Sacred War, as Duris claims in the second…
The Cause of All Great Wars — SENTENTIAE ANTIQUAE
In my recent blog post about the Renaissance polymath Wilhelm Schickard I wrote the following paragraph about the demise of him and his family, killed by plague brought into his home by invading soldiers in the Thirty Years War. The last years of Schickard’s life were filled with tragedy. Following the death of Gustav Adolf […]
über Science, War and Pestilence — The Renaissance Mathematicus
Die Goldene Landschaft 