Ancient Greek mercenaries were a ubiquitous force on the battlefields of the ancient Mediterranean where they fought for ...

For the historical Scipio, as for Hannibal, we are tightly constrained by our sources. Books 21-30 of Livy’s history of Rome cover the Second Punic War, and survive complete in a tradition reaching ...

Dunkirk has beaten films such as The Great Escape to be voted the UK's favourite Second World War film. The 2017 movie also pipped films such as The Dam Busters (1955), Pearl Harbour (2001 ...

One thing that Susan Harrison and I have in common is that our fathers were pilots in the Royal Canadian Air Force. Although mine, who died more than a decade ago, never saw combat, hers was a ...

According to Livy, a Roman historian writing around the time of Jesus’ birth, the Roman general Scipio Africanus, having returned victorious from the Second Punic War in 201 B.C., ordered a ...

As reported by several ancient sources, including Cicero and Livy, in 204 B.C. the Roman state consulted a set of prophetic scrolls called the Sibylline Oracles on how best to respond to the pressures ...

As reported by several ancient sources, including Cicero and Livy, in 204 B.C. the Roman ... the pressures it faced as a result of the Second Punic War – Rome’s prolonged conflict with ...

Unlike the previous two wars, which involved much maneuvering and pitched battles (the Second Punic War saw the Carthaginian general Hannibal crossing the Alps) the third was mostly a siege of ...