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Soldiers fighting for usurpers
Episode 271
Published 2 years, 6 months ago
Description
Chris poses this question for Murray.
'More Roman soldiers were killed in the civil wars against other Roman soldiers than any other adversary. Why was it so easy for usurpers to convince their soldiers to fight against their brethren? And why didn't emperors try to change whatever facilitated this kind of behaviour?'
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