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Could Alexander have conquered Republican Rome?
Posted: Mon Mar 17, 2003 7:16 pm
by Enrique
I believe so. But I need some proof, so if anyone out there knows where I could find any relevant info, please inform me. I'm especially looking into the Invasion of Italy by Pyrrhus and Alexander the Molossian as well as the military strength of Rome and Carthage around 300 BC. Any help if welcome.
Now if anyone believes he couldn't have acomplished this feat, he/she is welcome to open a discussion.
Re: Could Alexander have conquered Republican Rome?
Posted: Wed Mar 19, 2003 9:23 am
by maciek
It was a huge discussion about it in this forum and in allempires. My opinion is always the same: He could. Comparing Pyrrus which almost did it, Alexander had much more tactical and strategic knowledge, so I think he would win there. I have many reasons to think like that, all his campaigns gives me such assumption. Just try to compare way of fighting and winning of Alexander and even much later Romans. But still there can be no proof for this because we don't know how things would be...
We can make some theoretical discussions that's all.
Maciek
Re: Could Alexander have conquered Republican Rome?
Posted: Thu Mar 27, 2003 9:55 am
by Enrique
I understand that there is no real proof of this, but maybe someone knows of any source which states the strength of romes army during that time or the intentions that Alexander had for his empire before dieing