TIBERIUS CLAUDIUS MAXIMUS, THE CAPTOR OF THE DACIAN KING DECEBALUS – THE MOST DECORATED ROMAN INTELLIGENCE OFFICER
TIBERIUS CLAUDIUS MAXIMUS, THE CAPTOR OF THE DACIAN KING DECEBALUS – THE MOST DECORATED ROMAN INTELLIGENCE OFFICER

Summary/Abstract: The use of an intelligence asset – either civilian or military – in order to ensure the completion of a security task that may have a major political/military/historical consequences it has been the prerogative of modern and contemporary history. The existence and an easy access to written media has ensured the myth of intelligence world and operatives.What if a fluke occurrence were allow us to bring forward long time forgotten similar cases which due to the lack of media were buried in the history oblivion? Based on an extraordinary funerary stone of almost 2,000 year old, the present paper is analysing the career of an intelligence officer in the Roman army, who’s intuition/talent led to the capture of one of the most wanted leaders of the barbarian world – the Dac

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