Spare No One
Spare No One In 146 BC, the armies of the Roman Republic destroyed Carthage and Corinth, two of the most spectacular cities of the ancient Mediterranean world. Yet these twin destructions were not so…
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Spare No One
In 146 BC, the armies of the Roman Republic destroyed Carthage and Corinth, two of the most spectacular cities of the ancient Mediterranean world. Yet these twin destructions were not so extraordinary in the long annals of Roman warfare. It was a display of ruthlessness so terrible that it shocked contemporaries, leaving behind deep scars and palpable historical traumas.
Indeed, in virtually every war they fought during the third and second centuries BC, the Roman legions killed and enslaved populations, executed prisoners, and put cities to the torch. In Spare No One, Gabriel Baker convincingly shows that mass violence was vital to Roman military operations. This powerful book reveals that these violent acts were not normally the handiwork of frenzied soldiers run amok, nor were they spontaneous outbursts of uncontrolled savagery.
On the contrary-and more troublingly-Roman commanders