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Article: Recounting savage battles, victories of ancient Rome with Caesar's help.(BOOKS)
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- The Washington Times (Washington, DC)
- Article date:
- March 3, 2002
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Byline: Woody West, THE WASHINGTON TIMES
It has been said, more conversationally than seriously, that most of us are by temperament either Roman or Greek - the former valuing civic discipline, social order and authority, the latter more inclined toward freedom, creativity and governance tending toward the libertarian. The schema does not bear close examination, to be sure. But for those who lean to the Roman model, even if they remember not much more than "Veni, vidi, vici" from high-school Latin, Stephen Dando-Collins's "Caesar's Legion" will be absorbing.
The 10th Legion - Legio X - was "certainly the most famous legion in the first centuries B.C. and ...