EUREKA - Roman army troops

[Cave Equum]

Livy bashing goes back to the introduction of the printing press. To my knowledge the first book published on the Roman army was by Lipsius (spelling) in 1510 AD. So Livy bashing is now close to its 500th year anniversary. One facet of academia that fascinates me is when an academic attacks another academic’s conjecture with his own conjecture. Here we have two academics who both cannot prove that they are right, telling the other they are wrong.

I agree with you up to a point, but in the late 19th century Schliemann went out to look for Troy with the Iliad in his hand and I think archeology has come a long way since then.