After decades of war between their cities, the generals Scipio Africanus and Hannibal faced off at the Battle of Zama.

Hannibal of Carthage (modern Tunisia), a great military strategist, led elephants through the Alps to defeat Rome.

The ancient Greek essayist Plutarch used “parallel lives” to describe his collection of biographical sketches, in which he ...

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Sworn by his father to forever hate the Romans, Hannibal staged one of the most legendary attacks in the history of military warfare on the formidable army. General Hannibal was one of the most ...

When first given this book to review, I thought that Plutarch and his compelling series of associated Greek and Roman biographies was the inspiration for its treatment. Although the author also had ...

The timeline on Edmonton’s rebuild has extended so far that it is comparable to the length of time it took the Romans to eject Hannibal Barca from Italy in the second of its three wars with Carthage, ...

The July 7, 2022 edition of The Wall Street Journal “front paged” the headline “Russian Forces Press Their Advance in Eastern Ukraine.” Beneath the accompanying photo, the caption reads “DESTRUCTION: ...