04-27-2010, 06:42 PM
Thanks for the responses. It seemed to me that greater forces were at work than just the Barcids' personal vendetta.
It seems like early historians had a habit of framing these broad conflicts as personal affairs, e.g. the Trojan War being fought over a messy divorce, or names the "Mithridatic Wars" or "Jugurthine War," which seem oversimplified.
I don't know if that's for the sake of simplicity or to entertain their audiences or what, but sometimes it can obscure the real reasons why events happened.
It seems like early historians had a habit of framing these broad conflicts as personal affairs, e.g. the Trojan War being fought over a messy divorce, or names the "Mithridatic Wars" or "Jugurthine War," which seem oversimplified.
I don't know if that's for the sake of simplicity or to entertain their audiences or what, but sometimes it can obscure the real reasons why events happened.