{"id":516,"date":"2010-08-10T10:17:09","date_gmt":"2010-08-10T10:17:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.transparent.com\/latin\/?p=516"},"modified":"2014-08-21T14:51:29","modified_gmt":"2014-08-21T14:51:29","slug":"romes-top-generals","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.transparent.com\/latin\/romes-top-generals\/","title":{"rendered":"Rome&#8217;s Top Generals"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Rome wouldn\u2019t be what it was if it weren\u2019t for its superior generals. Who is on your list of Rome\u2019s top superior generals? Here is my list :<\/p>\n<p><strong>Gaius Marius<\/strong> \u2013 alright, so didn\u2019t exactly win every battle, but the organization, structure and discipline of the ancient Roman army was no match for many armies- all thanks to the reforms of Marius.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">\n<p><strong>Lucius Cornelius Sulla Felix <\/strong><strong>\u2013<\/strong>ok, so he may have been a tyrant, but he had a solid record as a general. He never lost a battle and he was the only general in history to have successfully attacked and occupied Athens and Rome.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">\n<p><strong>Scipio Africanus <\/strong><strong>\u2013<\/strong>come on, he beat the great general Hannibal, and that\u2019s got to count for something! He was also the first major general to expand Rome\u2019s territories outside the European continent.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<img width=\"217\" height=\"193\" src=\"https:\/\/blogs.transparent.com\/latin\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/15\/2010\/08\/Scipio_Africanus_the_Elder.png\" class=\"attachment-post-thumbnail size-post-thumbnail wp-post-image tmp-hide-img\" alt=\"\" decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" \/><p>Rome wouldn\u2019t be what it was if it weren\u2019t for its superior generals. Who is on your list of Rome\u2019s top superior generals? Here is my list : Gaius Marius \u2013 alright, so didn\u2019t exactly win every battle, but the organization, structure and discipline of the ancient Roman army was no match for many armies-&hellip;<\/p>\n<p class=\"post-item__readmore\"><a class=\"btn btn--md\" href=\"https:\/\/blogs.transparent.com\/latin\/romes-top-generals\/\">Continue Reading<\/a><\/p>","protected":false},"author":35,"featured_media":519,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"content-type":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[10600],"class_list":["post-516","post","type-post","status-publish","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-roman-generals"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.transparent.com\/latin\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/516","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.transparent.com\/latin\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.transparent.com\/latin\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.transparent.com\/latin\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/35"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.transparent.com\/latin\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=516"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.transparent.com\/latin\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/516\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3332,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.transparent.com\/latin\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/516\/revisions\/3332"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.transparent.com\/latin\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/519"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.transparent.com\/latin\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=516"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.transparent.com\/latin\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=516"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.transparent.com\/latin\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=516"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}