a book you may be interested in

hi folks,

picked up a good book called "the enemies of rome" (author: philip matyszak). it really is about a number of leaders who where a nuisance to rome, throughout the empire, from about 250 bc to the fall of rome.

there are 17 protagonists, each one has about 10-25 pages dedicated to him, with the book split into 4 groups and an introduction to each section.
section I: hannibal, philip v, viriathus, jugurtha,
section II: mithradates, spartacus, vercingetorix, orodes II, cleopatra,
section III: arminius, boudicca, josephus, decabulus,
section IV: shapur I, zenobia, alaric, atilla,

overall, the book is about 300 pages, i found it compelling, well written and frankly couldn't put it down. i quickly have found good wikipedia entries for each.

paul

Nice find Bomber, this looks very entresting.

Sweet, I saw that in the book store and almost bought it! Then I realized I already knew 90% of it.

..i know what you mean, there should be volumes on these guys, they shaped the world. it was a nice read, even though it was brief, and i knew alot of it too. it did make me realise that even though i know alot about some of these guys, that the roamns were relentless when they set thier minds to it.

shapur I id never heard of, nor decabulus,
and zenobia

Yeah I've never heard of Shapur or Decabulus either. That books right up my alley, I dont think I could have put it down either, I just love ancient times. I've built up a library large enough to sink a small Titanic.