It really did feel like I was reading Polybius. This isn't just a manga, it's a full-on illustrated narrative history of the Second Punic War (itself perhaps the greatest epic of Rome, at the very least a story up there with those of Caesar and Atilla) combining beautiful art with an impressive level of attention to detail and more than one quote taken straight from antiquity.
I do quibble with Archimedes' treatment - he's merged with another figure in a way which is not justified by the sources, and while it fit the whole scheming geniuses aspect of the story I don't think it was flattering
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