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Pompey the Great: Conqueror of the East, Power Lost in the West

A rising star at twenty-five, Pompey the...

Caius Marius: The Reformer Who Revolutionized the Roman Army

Caius Marius transformed Rome’s legions in 107 BCE: recruiting the poor, standardizing arms, creating cohorts and the eagle standard—paving the path to empire and civil war.