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Carthage tells the life story of the city, both as one of the Mediterranean¿s great seafaring powers before 146 BC, and after its refounding in the 1st century BC. It provides a comprehensive history of the city and its unique culture, and offering students an insight into Rome¿s greatest enemy.

First book dedicated to Carthage's conflicts outside the 'Punic Wars' against Rome.

Carthage tells the life story of the city, both as one of the Mediterranean¿s great seafaring powers before 146 BC, and after its refounding in the 1st century BC. It provides a comprehensive history of the city and its unique culture, and offering students an insight into Rome¿s greatest enemy.

Beginning as Phoenician settlers in North Africa, the Carthaginians then broadened their civilization with influences from neighbouring North African people, Egypt, and the Greek world. This title reveals this complex, multicultural and innovative people whose achievements left an indelible impact on their Roman conquerors and on history.

Hannibal's family dominated Carthage and its empire for the last forty years of the third century BC. This book provides the full story of Carthage's achievement during that time.

Hannibal has always been the most famous member of the Barcid dynasty, which dominated Cathage and its empire in Africa and Spain in the latter half of the third century BC. However, Dexter Hoyos' revealing study makes it clear that Carthaginian success was founded on the military and political skills of more than one member of this remarkable family. It was Hannibal's father, Hamilcar Barca, who relaunched Carthage as an imperial power after ...

Rome - Urbs Roma: city of patricians and plebeians, emperors and gladiators, slaves and concubines - was the epicentre of a far-flung imperium whose cultural legacy is incalculable. How a tiny settlement, founded by desperate adventurers beside the banks of the River Tiber, came to rule vast tracts of territory across the face of the known world is one of the more improbable stories of antiquity. The epic scale of the Colosseum, majestically c...

A tour de force of military history that recounts a critical turning-point in the history of Rome

In der 1968 gegründeten Reihe erscheinen Monographien aus den Gebieten der Griechischen und Lateinischen Philologie sowie der Alten Geschichte. Die Bände weisen eine große Vielzahl von Themen auf: neben sprachlichen, textkritischen oder gattungsgeschichtlichen philologischen Untersuchungen stehen sozial-, politik-, finanz- und kulturgeschichtliche Arbeiten aus der Klassischen Antike und der Spätantike. Entscheidend für die Aufnahme ist die Qua...

Hannibal's enduring reputation as a man and as a general is due to his enemies' fascination with him. The issue of whether he might indeed have changed history had he postponed conflict with Rome and concentrated first on Carthage's own prosperity and safety is explored in this volume as vigorously as the military questions.

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A Companion to the Punic Wars offers a comprehensive new survey of the three wars fought between Rome and Carthage between 264 and 146 BC.

A major rebellion against Carthage of mercenary troops and oppressed North African subjects almost ended her existence, a story vividly recorded by the historian Polybius. "Truceless War" reconstructs what happened and why, and the role of Carthage's rescuer Hamilcar Barca.

Widely considered the greatest conflicts of antiquity, the Punic Wars irrevocably changed the course of world history. A Companion to the Punic Wars provides a comprehensive new survey of the three wars fought by Rome and Carthage between 264 and 146 BC. Featuring a series of thought provoking essays from a community of distinguished international scholars, the collection provides a unique portrayal of the bloody "hundred years' war" that crea...