What Roman military hero do you admire most?

[Narukami]

Many excellent suggestions here, and a seemingly impossible task selecting from among this "galaxy of stars."

However ...

Your first choice remains, to my mind, the best: Scipio Africanus.

He was by far the noblest of Romans from a family full of noble Romans. His father and uncle were generals of note during the Punic Wars and his daughter, Cornelia, the very model of the Roman Matron, to say nothing of his courageous grandsons, Gaius & Tiberius Gracchus.

But of all of them, Scipio was the best. He turly believed in the old Roman concept of "res publica" and he lived it -- on and off the battlefield, in peace and in war, in his private life and his public service.

There are many fine Romans worthy of your artistic efforts, and indeed, there are many as good as Scipio, but none better.

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Narukami