Armory

Greece

• Hoplites
  • citizen soldiers
  • phalanx formation
  • armed with shield and spear
  • wore bronze body armor and helmet

Rome

• Centurions
• Equestrians

Famous Battles

Thermopylae (480 BC)

The Punic Wars (246-146 BC)

Actium (31 BC)

Masada (73 AD)

Famous Generals

King Leonidas

Hannibal (of Carthage)

Scipio Africanus

Julius Caesar

Caesar Augustus (Octavian)

Famous Armies

The 300 Spartans

• Led by King Leonidas of Sparta
• The Battle of Thermopylae (480 BC)

Legio X Fretensis

• (Legio Decimus Fretensis, the 10th Legion of the Sea Straits)
• A Roman Legion (a basic army unit) consisted of about 4800 soldiers, divided in to 10 cohorts (480 men), each consisting of 6 centuries (80 men).
• The Tenth Legion was Julius Caesar's personal legion.
• Major engagements:
  • Gallic Wars (58–51 BC)
    • Where Caesar conquered Gaul and wrote a rather famous book about it
  • The Great Roman Civil War (49-45 BC)
    • Caesar and the Populares vs. Pompey the Great and the Optimates
  • Battle of Naulochus (36 BC)
    • where the Legion earned the name "Fretensis"
    • Under Octavian
  • Battle of Actium (31 BC)
    • Octavian vs. Marc Antony
  • First Jewish-Roman War (66–73)
    • Siege of Masada (72-73)
  • Bar Kokhba's revolt (132-135)
    • Last stand of the Jews against Rome
• Maximus' Legion in Gladiator.