The Romans of the Middle Imperial

The romans of the middle imperi, which gibbon famously called the safest, most civilized and most comfortable generation in history, bears no resemblance to the thin, desperate romans of late 400 b c. Their fights were not the great wars that made men famous. They were forced to deal with persistent skirmishes of attrition, which cost lives and profited no one. And if you decisively beat one roman army, rather than surrendering like a civilized nation, the romans raised another and set it against you. I'll close to night with a rare programming note. I am going on vacation, so there will be no new episode next week. But fear not, we will return