Most notably of these were the many wars with the Samnites, as well as the several wars ... The final part examines the state of Rome and Italy on the eve of the First Punic War (264-241 BC). In ...

The Punic Wars, which lasted from 264 to 146 B.C., transformed ... By treating each campaign separately, rather than in strict chronological order, the book offers a clear and well-organized ...

But elsewhere it puts the book into a straitjacket. Winners always write the history, and in reality the only sources we have for the Punic Wars are Roman. Leckie, a classical scholar, has no ...

Over the course of almost 140 years they fought what became known as the Punic Wars: (The name Punic derives from the Romans’ word for the Carthaginians, Punicus or Poenicus, which refers to ...

The find is the latest in a string of discoveries made with unmanned submersibles that are upsetting our understanding of naval tactics during the Punic Wars, which saw the upstart republic ...

The Carthaginian empire left its mark in history, particularly well-known for the three large-scale "Punic Wars" with the rising Roman Republic, including the Carthaginian general Hannibal's ...

Its strategic value, though, made it a prime target during the Punic Wars, which resulted in Rome conquering Sardinia in 238 ...

index. $37.95 paper. ISBN:0415327431 Cannae is an attempt to apply the methodology developed by John Keegan in his ground-breaking The Face of Battle (1976), to the most notable battle of the Second ...

The news last week that the mayors of Rome and Carthage have signed a treaty in Tunis officially ending the Third Punic War comes as no surprise, since the hostilities ended in 146 B.C. when the ...

A key episode of the Punic Wars has emerged from the waters near the small Sicilian island of Pantelleria as archaeologists discovered a cluster of more than 30 ancient anchors. Found at a depth ...