Harry Sidebottom is lecturer in ancient history at Merton College, Oxford, and part-time lecturer in classics and ancient history at the University of Warwick. He has written for and contributed to many publications, including Classical Review, Journal of Roman Studies, and War and Society in the Roman World.
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A Financial Times, BBC History, and Spectator Book of the Year On 8 June 218 AD, a fourteen-year-old Syrian boy, egged on by his grandmother, led an army to battle in a Roman civil war. Against all expectations, he was victorious. Varius Avitus Bassianu... SEE MORE