Hannibal educated by tutors. They taught him Greek – the language of the wider Mediterranean – and history, philosophy and the arts of war. He lived and fought and learned alongside his ...

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This fresco by Jacopo Ripanda depicts Hannibal crossing the Alps in 218 B.C. New research claims to have located the site of the general's first major victory in Spain. Photo by DeAgostini / Getty ...

This also supports historical accounts by the Greek historian Polybius, who lived from around 200 B.C. to 118 B.C., and who described Hannibal choosing "the highest paths" for his army ...

However, as Hannibal marched to southern Italy, where he aimed to persuade many Greek and Italian allies of Rome to switch sides, hotter heads prevailed, and Paullus and Varro were elected Consuls.

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 ...