In 218 B.C., the Carthaginian general Hannibal Barca led an army of more than 30,000 ... Accounts differ, but it’s generally believed that he lost more than 10,000 men and possibly many more.

Hannibal’s father, commander and statesman Hamilcar Barca, chafed at the peace treaty ... climactic Battle of Zama in 202 B.C. Hannibal lost the battle and the war. Carthage ceded to Rome ...

How was it that, in 218 BC, the Carthaginian general Hannibal Barca led his army of soldiers ... Most of the Romans' account has been lost. And scholars have argued over details of the Punic ...

HANNIBAL: Rome’s Greatest Enemy. By Philip Freeman. Pegasus. 240 pages. $27.95. Hannibal Barca was an anomaly of the ancient world. A supreme strategist and tactician, he also was notable for ...

There are countless movies about or set in the Roman Empire, but it sometimes feels like Hollywood forgot about Hannibal Barca, the Carthaginian general who terrorized Rome in its early years.