Greeks vs Romans: Empires at War
The Ancients
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What Happened in Between?
Perisoviparus was one of the great hellenistic kings, possibly one of the classical world's great chancellers. He almost had it all, and eventually didn't - but he nearly did. One of his biggest gambols was to try and take on the sort of embryonic legions of rome. The question is why? What happened in between to allow the romans to evolve their legionary base system to something which the hellenistic kingdoms later couldn't stand up against.
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