Gnaeus Sicinius and the Third Macedonian War
New approach to Livy’s information
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https://doi.org/10.54524/2490-3930.2019.15Keywords:
Third Macedonian War, Gnaeus Sicinius, Apollonia, Second LegionAbstract
The first Roman troops in the Third Macedonian War to cross the Adriatic were those in the army of propraetor Gnaeus Sicinius. His task was to secure the coastal area around Apollonia, about which Livy writes on several occasions. However, other than Polybius, Livy used various sources, due to which there are contradictions in the information about the size of the army that Sicinius transferred and whether or not he secured a much larger area. The purpose of this article is to examine in detail the available information and provide new insight into how many troops he actually transferred, and whether his securing of the forts of the Dassareti, the Illyrians and the coastal area around Apollonia was done with a significantly larger force than previously believed.
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