Front Porch: From carelessness to crassness, we can’t unsee what we’ve seen
So, update – the American Dialect Society chose for its 2024 word of the year, “rawdog.” I had to gulp and blink twice when I ...
Wall Street Journal23d
‘Hannibal and Scipio’ Review: Carthage Versus Rome
The Roman general Scipio and Carthaginian Hannibal dueled with each other during the last years of the third century B.C., the final phase of what we now know as the Second Punic War.
wargamer.com12d
Total War Rome: The Board Game review - a slightly baffling triumph
We’ve waited years for Simon Hall’s ambitious, official Rome Total War board game - and it fully lives up to Creative Assembly’s PC classic.
Elon Musk and the history of the ‘Roman salute’
When Elon Musk performed a gesture that many saw as a fascist gesture, his supporters claimed it was a Roman salute. So ...
What’s the Roman salute? Here’s the history of Musk’s controversial hand gesture
The straight-arm gesture was first popularized by the Italian fascist leader Benito Mussolini. There’s no evidence of a ...
Vail Daily22d
LaConte: White death, sweet death and no death
Some of the most famous examples of white death have come in warfare. During the Second Punic War in 218 B.C., the Carthaginian general Hannibal was feared due to his use of war elephants, which ...
Coin World10d
Carthage and its coins
the First Punic War (264 to 241 B.C.), the Second Punic War (218 to 201 B.C.) and the Third Punic War (149 to 146 B.C.). An extraordinary series of high-denomination electrum and silver coins from ...
Times of Malta26d
Membership of the EU and our constitution
We even changed sides halfway during the Second Punic War. The Romans called us Barbarians since we spoke no Latin, and the Arabs thought we belonged to them. At the Congress of Vienna ...