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The Sword of Rome: A Biography of Marcus Claudius Marcellus
 Metadata ISBN-13: 9781783407927 ASIN: B00DN5V4VI Publisher: Pen and Sword Military Publication date: 7/19/2012 Formats: AZW3, EPUB, MOBI Pages: 192 Description Marcellus' military exploits were largely unmatched by any other aristocrat of Roman Middle Republic. As a young soldier in the First Punic War, he won a reputation for his skill in single combat. In his first consulship, he earned a triumph for defeating a Gallic tribe, no small feat in and of itself, and also slew the Gallic chieftain Britomartus in single combat. Consequently, he earned the spolia opima, an honor, according to Roman antiquarians, that had only been earned twice before, once by Romulus himself. He went on to defeat the hitherto-invincible Hannibal in a small battle around the central Italian city of Nola, and subsequently led an army to subdue and plunder the powerful city of Syracuse in an epic 2 year siege (despite the ingenius defensive measures of the inventor Archimedes). Yet, despite his undeniable success as a warrior and commander, Marcellus met with considerable political opposition at Rome.Marcellus' career not only makes exciting reading, but gives an excellent vantage point from which to view the military and political struggles of the period and the role of military successes in the aristocratic culture of the Roman Republic. His biography will be an important addition to existing works on Roman military history.
Meet the Authors
Jeremiah McCall
Dr. Jeremiah B. McCall is a freelance author, high school teacher, and consultant on educational game design in Cincinnati, Ohio. In addition, he is an expert on the use of simulation games in the classroom.
Besides his dissertation, he has written two books, including Gaming the Past (2011) and The Sword of Rome: A Biography of Marcus Claudius Marcellus (2012). Gaming the Past is a book about using simulation games to teach history. It has received multiple positive reviews from education experts such as Katy Swalwell and been described as "fill[ing] a gap in the literature" and "a model example of reflective research" by reviewer Seann Dikkers. Sword of Rome, his most recent book, is a comprehensive biography of the life of Marcus Claudius Marcellus, one of the most successful politicians of the Roman Republic./size] 
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