![]() So if it was possible to round up many prisoners and sell them, Romans would, but if it was impractical, those POWs would be executed. Romans had a more complex set of considerations, especially as distances and costs were on a much larger scale, whereas the sale price of individual prisoners did not greatly jump over the centuries. One can see several dark exceptions, but Greeks usually did not kill other Greeks except under special circumstances. ![]() My premise in all my work is that the Greeks spared prisoners when there was a way to make profit from them and for the most part spared fellow Hellenes unless they were retaliating for previous acts of execution of prisoners. Aside from my Augustan Era and Ara Pacis work, my research on POWs in the Ancient World - Rome and to a lesser extent Greece - is my second field of study, and it has received a lot more interest from audiences and readers.
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