The First Punic War was fought around Sicily and its barrier islands, including on the western coast, and involved large ocean fleets, according to “Trinacria, ‘An Island Outside Time’.” ...

In 1985, a war came to an official end – 2,131 years after its final battle. For centuries during the pre-Christian era, two ...

In Volume I, Chapman covers the period from the Persian Wars, in which Carthage served ... Dionysius rose to power because of the Punic threat; the Carthaginians struggled long and hard to gain ...