battle series

Caesar’s Guide to Your Worst Day

Lessons from the Battle of the Sabis.

Nov 2 • Joseph Pickett

What Gladiator Bones Reveal About Their Diet

Not what the movies sold you

Sep 16 • Joseph Pickett

Rome Had No Business Winning This Battle

Caesar's navy was outsized, outbuilt, and outgunned. Still won.

Sep 4 • Joseph Pickett

Rome's Most Documented Battlefield Was Its Most Lost

Alesia decided whether Rome or Gaul would run Europe. It took 1,800 years to find it.

Aug 30 • Joseph Pickett

Rome Banned The Word 'Peace.'

The Senate's plan for Rome’s worst day.

Aug 26 • Joseph Pickett

The 700 Written Out of Thermopylae

History remembers 300 Spartans. It forgot the 700 others beside them.

Aug 19 • Joseph Pickett

26 Miles and Nobody Died

The true Marathon story is wilder than the myth.

Aug 17 • Joseph Pickett

This General Knew Every Caesar Trick

Caesar still whipped him at Pharsalus

Aug 12 • Joseph Pickett

The Student Smashed Hannibal at Zama

Scipio turned Cannae against its inventor.

Aug 10 • Joseph Pickett

Elephants in Kenya Solved a 2,200-Year Mystery

Hannibal's Men Struggled More Than The Elephants

Aug 7 • Joseph Pickett

No Guns. 70,000 Dead. Rome Thanked the Loser.

Rome’s worst defeat happened 2,242 years ago Aug. 2.

Aug 3 • Joseph Pickett

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