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Sun Tzu
496 BCE - Outside Gusu
Outside Gusu, in a borrowed room above a boat-shed, the strategist whose principles shaped warfare for two thousand years sets down what the generals always misunderstand.
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Pericles
429 BCE - Athens
While the light still holds in plague-stricken Athens, the man who built the Parthenon reflects on what democracy actually cost.
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Alexander the Great
323 BCE - Babylon
Fever, succession, and conquest meeting bodily limit.
Dying at thirty-two in Babylon, a conqueror dictates the truth his generals will try to bury.
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Scipio Africanus
184 BCE - Liternum
Far from Rome at Liternum, the general who defeated Hannibal reflects on the republic's talent for destroying its own heroes.
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Hannibal
183 BCE - Bithynia
In Bithynia, a guest who knows he is already a hostage, the man who terrified Rome dictates what defeat taught him about war.
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Julius Caesar
44 BCE - Rome
Admiration, conspiracy, and the danger of political necessity.
Days before the Ides of March, Rome's most powerful man sets down what he cannot say aloud.
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Rome, Italy
Alive in this timeline around 44 BCE to 13 / story span 44 BCE-1564
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Outside Gusu
Alive in this timeline around 496 BCE / story span 496 BC
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Sun Tzu
496 BCE - Outside Gusu
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Outside Gusu, in a borrowed room above a boat-shed, the strategist whose principles shaped warfare for two thousand years sets down what the generals always misunderstand.
- 429 BCE
