Quintus Servilius Caepio

151 BCE–c. 2nd century BCE

Quintus Servilius Caepio was a Roman commander associated with the disaster at Arausio in 105 BC. His rivalry with fellow commander Mallius Maximus and the scale of the defeat made him a byword for aristocratic failure.

Vincent B. Davis II’s The Man with Two Names places Quintus Servilius Caepio within a narrative shaped by political ambition and government and family, marriage and personal loyalty. Vincent B. Davis II’s The Noise of War places Quintus Servilius Caepio within a narrative shaped by military command and battlefield decision-making and crime, espionage and covert power.

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The Sertorius Scrolls in Order

by Vincent B. Davis II 7 books 4.4

The Sertorius Scrolls follow Quintus Sertorius through the late Roman Republic, beginning with his youth and military service before moving into the crises of Marius, Sulla, the Social War and civil conflict. The series is strongest for readers interested in the generation before Caesar, when Roman politics was…

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