Recently, a video appeared on my TikTok For You Page that got an immediate send into the group chat: A woman, speaking to camera, tells the viewer to ask the men in their lives — partners, fathers, brothers, whoever — how often they think of the Roman Empire. At first, I laughed. Then, I asked my boyfriend.

The Roman Emperor Trajan, also known as Marcus Ulpius Traianus spent most of his life on military campaigns.

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Rome's history spans 28 centuries. While Roman mythology dates the founding of Rome at around 753 BC, the site has been inhabited for much longer, making it a major human settlement for almost three millennia and one of the oldest continuously occupied cities in Europe. Eventually, the city successively became the capital of the Roman Kingdom, the Roman Republic and the Roman Empire, and is regarded by many as the first-ever Imperial city and metropolis.

Heroes are often associated with bravery and virtue. Those in ancient Greek and Roman history are among the biggest names in heroism.

The Roman army of the mid-Republic was also known as the "manipular army" or the "Polybian army" after the Greek historian Polybius, who provides the most detailed extant description of this phase. The Roman army started to have a full time army of 150'000 at all times and 3/4 of the rest where levied.