Scipio Africanus

Hollywood has gone to elaborate lengths to recreate the violence and mayhem of ancient warfare in movies such as Gladiator and Troy. But what were ancient battles really like? What weapons, tactics, armor, training, and logistics were used? And what were the crucial factors that could turn the tide of battle, giving one side victory and consigning the other to slaughter, capture, or, at best, escape to fight another day?

Famous Romans • Part 1-2 • by J. Rufus Fears
Professor of Classics, University of Oklahoma
24 lectures • 31 minutes per lecture
2001 | English | History | AVI, PDF 99 pages | 4.26 GB

Like the authors who serve as sources for this course - Livy, Polybius, Suetonius, Tacitus, and above all, Plutarch - Professor J. Rufus Fears believes that individuals, not organizations or social movements, are the primary forces that make history. In this companion course to Famous Greeks, Professor Fears retells the lives of the remarkable individuals - the statesmen, thinkers, warriors, and writers - who shaped the history of the Roman Empire and, by extension, our own history and culture.