After decades of war between their cities, the generals Scipio Africanus and Hannibal faced off at the Battle of Zama.
“Now I am ready to become a god,” says Anthony Hopkins as the Emperor Vespasian in the Roland Emmerich-directed Those About to Die. Of course, as ruler of Rome in the year 79 CE, the victor of the ...
The Punic Wars from the Carthaginian perspective reveal a struggle for survival against an emerging Roman power. From the ...
A scene from Hannibal vs Rome, which shows truth can be stranger than fiction If ever there was testimony to the homely that the truth is stranger than fiction, the story of Carthaginian General ...
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