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Polyaenus Macedo
Polyaenus Macedo
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Polyaenus was a Macedonian author and rhetorician active in the 2nd century CE who wrote in Greek under Roman rule. He is best known for the Strategemata (Stratagems of War), a collection of historical and legendary military ruses gathered from across Greek, Macedonian, Roman and other history. He dedicated the work to the emperors Marcus Aurelius and Lucius Verus around 162 CE, around the time of their Parthian campaign, presenting it as practical counsel. By his own account he had also been a practicing advocate. The surviving Excerpta are later abridgements of his eight-book compilation.
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Rome in this era
Under the emperors (from Augustus, 27 BCE) Rome was the capital of an empire stretching from Britain to Syria, a city of perhaps a million people. Greek-speaking philosophers, physicians, rhetoricians and historians came to teach and write there; Domitian expelled philosophers from the city around 93-95 CE, and in the 3rd century Plotinus taught in Rome (244-270).
About Rome
Rome, on the Tiber in central Italy, grew from an Iron Age settlement into the capital of the Roman Republic and then of an empire that by the 1st century CE ruled the whole Mediterranean. Its Jewish community, attested from the 2nd century BCE, is among the oldest in Europe. Christian tradition holds that the apostles Peter and Paul died there, and the city became the seat of the popes. After the Western Empire ended in 476 it passed to Gothic kings, to Byzantium and then to papal rule as capital of the Papal States, until it became the capital of unified Italy in 1871. Vatican City, independent since 1929, lies within it.