- Oct 2018
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- Sydney
Yes, there have been other threads like this. And yes, some of you will comment your opinion that threads of this kind are uninteresting, pointless, fallacious, etc. Fine. I acknowledge that it's of course impossible to definitively compare many of these generals, since we have much more information on, e.g., Caesar's campaigns, accompanied as they were by his commentaries, than we do on on, say, those of Constantine, whose campaigns provoked little interest from the Christian writers of his age beyond the supposed role of their god. Regardless, I personally find it interesting to see which generals people consider to be the greatest. It relates to the same fascination that has led me to create polls asking for favourite Roman emperors, empresses and dynasties.
This thread is asking for top 10 lists, which I think will be more interesting than your standard thread on this topic, since Scipio Africanus and Caesar tend to dominate threads that ask for a single answer (thus Rome's Greatest General?). Your list does not need to be in any particular order, and it may include Byzantine choices.
This thread is asking for top 10 lists, which I think will be more interesting than your standard thread on this topic, since Scipio Africanus and Caesar tend to dominate threads that ask for a single answer (thus Rome's Greatest General?). Your list does not need to be in any particular order, and it may include Byzantine choices.
