Talk:Roman-Syrian War

From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

This article is within the scope of the Military history WikiProject. If you would like to participate, please visit the project page, where you can join the project and see lists of open tasks and regional and topical task forces. To use this banner, please see the full instructions.

Start

This article has been rated as Start-Class on the quality scale.

Additional information and associated task forces:

	This article has been checked against the following criteria for B-Class status: Referencing and citation: criterion not met Coverage and accuracy: criterion not met Structure: criterion met Grammar: criterion met Supporting materials: criterion met
Associated task forces (periods and conflicts):
	Classical warfare task force (c. 700 BC–c. 500 AD)

Syria Portal

This article is within the scope of WikiProject Syria, an attempt to build a comprehensive and detailed guide to articles on Syria on Wikipedia. If you would like to participate, you can edit the article attached to this page, or visit the project page, where you can join the project and/or contribute to the discussion.

This article has been rated as B-Class on the Project's quality scale.

Mid

This article has been rated as Mid-importance on the Project's importance scale.

After rating the article, please provide a short summary on the article's ratings summary page to explain your ratings and/or identify the strengths and weaknesses.

This article is within the scope of WikiProject Classical Greece and Rome. To participate, improve this article or visit the project page for more information.

[edit] Clean-up

The following things need to be changed with this article:

1. The introduction needs to be more encyclopedic

2. Grammar and punctuation needs to be fixed Crispus 23:11, 19 December 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Name

Wouldn't it be better to call it Roman-Seleucid War?--Aldux 11:29, 24 December 2006 (UTC)

Potentially this would be a better title, as it would fit in the Roman war naming conventions that we have been using. But since there was earlier fighting between the Seleucid Empire and Rome before this conflict, this issue would also need to be discussed in an article on the Roman-Seleucid War. Or maybe we could make several articles, and make them the First Roman-Seleucid War, the Second Roman-Seleucid War, etc. Crispus 17:29, 24 December 2006 (UTC)

Another better title might be Syrian-War, or Roman-Syrian War. Syrian War was the title given as this website[1]Crispus 07:33, 2 January 2007 (UTC)

Okay, I have found out that most of the fighting between the Seleucid Empire and Rome happened later, such as the War with Antiochus XIII. That would also have to go in an article on this topic. Crispus 04:41, 12 January 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Update

I reworded and rewrote the first and second paragraphs of this article but the section on the battle of Magnesia is too far gone for me to do much with. That section should be linked to the wiki page on the battle (Battle of Magnesia). The problem is that the writer of the page describing the battle is a little off on his statistics and seems to be using a new source for his numbers, completely disregarding traditional views of the battle, as well as all the primary sources. Drungarios 17:00, 4 January 2007 (UTC)

It has been a long period of time since work began on this artical improving it from the small set of sentences it previously was. Frankly im kinda dissapointed with its progress users such as Drungarios and Crispus claimed that they knew everything about this subject when really progress has been very poor :(

Whoa, Whoa, where did I say that I knew everything, or even say I'm going to work on this page. I did once say that "I hope to add information from ancient historians soon," once, but that's not really an affirmative answer. And to tell the truth I don't know much about this war. That's what reading from ancient historians is for, and I haven't done that yet.

http://www.livius.org/ap-ark/appian/appian_syriaca_00.html

That is a good website to go to if anyone wants to help. Frankly, with my school work right now, I really don't want to get bogged down in a potentially long and complex article such as this. Crispus 02:26, 18 April 2007 (UTC)

Hey man (Crispus) just wanted to let you know that the first comment on this section is a bit harsh I dont know who wrote it, I began working on the artical what seems like ages ago now and im happy that its been developed. As my knowlege on the subject is also vague. King Alaric 16:36, 18 April 2007 (UTC)