Painting of King Perseus of Macedon in front of Aemilius Paulus after the Battle of Pydna between Macedon and Rome. Credit: Jean-François Pierre Peyron / Public domain / Wikimedia Commons The Battle ...
Imagine, for a moment, you are a Roman soldier at war. In the midst of battle, you are confronted with an enormous and loudly trumpeting creature you’ve never seen before. It appears to have sharp ...