The ancient Greek essayist Plutarch used “parallel ... The Roman general Scipio and Carthaginian Hannibal dueled with each other during the last years of the third century B.C., the final ...

Hannibal survived the clash and later landed ... Both men served as adviser to the Hellenistic Greek king Antiochus III, a circumstance that allows Mr. Hornblower to do a Plutarch-style comparison ...