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1 online resource |
| Contents |
Cover -- Half-title page -- Reviews -- Frontispiece -- Title page -- Copyright page -- Dedication -- Contents -- List of Maps -- Preface and Acknowledgements -- Notes for the Reader -- Family Tree 1 Hannibal -- Family Tree 2 Scipio -- Timeline -- List of Abbreviations -- Prologue -- 0.1 Introduction -- 0.2 Ancient and Renaissance Explorations of the Parallels -- 0.3 Modern Explorations of the Parallels -- 0.4 Alan Bullock -- 0.5 Roman and Carthaginian Imperialism -- 0.6 The 'Past Presumptive' Tense -- Chapter 1 Hannibal and Scipio on Themselves -- 1.1 Introduction |
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1.2 Hannibal's Record: A Guess -- 1.3 Scipio's Epitaph or Elogium -- 1.4 How Much Did Hannibal's Bronze Tablet Say? -- 1.5 'In Their Own Words?' The Limits of the Evidence -- 1.6 What Did Hannibal and Scipio Look Like? -- Appendix 1.1 Sources -- Speeches -- Appendix 1.2 Plutarch's Lost Lives of Scipio -- Appendix 1.3 The 'Roving Anecdote' -- Chapter 2 Origins: Hannibal: 247-221, Birth to Aged 26 Years, Scipio: 235-218, Birth to Aged 17 Years -- 2.1 Introduction -- 2.2 Names -- 2.3 What Did 'Barca' Signify? -- 2.4 Childhood and Early Youth: Hannibal |
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2.5 Family, Childhood, and Early Youth: Scipio -- 2.6 The 230s and 220s: Hannibal and His Carthage -- 2.7 The 230s and 220s: Roman Events in Scipio's Youth -- Appendix 2.1 Objections to a New Theory about the Name Barca -- Chapter 3 Hannibal Victorious, 221-216: Aged 26-31 Years -- 3.1 Hannibal as Commander in Iberia -- 3.2 Saguntum and the Causes of the War with Rome -- 3.3 War Declared -- Hannibal Leaves for Italy -- 3.4 Across the Alps and into North Italy -- 3.5 The Battles at the Ticinus and Trebia, 218 -- 3.6 The Battle at Lake Trasimene, 217 -- 3.7 The Battle of Cannae, 216 |
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3.8 After Cannae -- Appendix 3.1 Hannibal Increasingly Isolated? -- Appendix 3.2 How Many Maharbals? -- Chapter 4 Scipio 216-205: Aged 19-30 Years -- 4.1 The Aedileship -- 4.2 Scipio's Father and Uncle in Iberia, 218-211 -- 4.3 Young Scipio Appointed to the Iberian Command, 210 (Aged 25) -- 4.4 New Carthage and Neptune, 209 -- 4.5 The Battles of Baecula (208) and Ilipa (206) -- 4.6 Scipio's Foundation of Italica (206): A Hadrianic Myth -- 4.7 Home in 206 to the Consulship for 205, but Not Yet a Triumph -- Chapter 5 Hannibal Frustrated in Italy, 216-208: Aged 31-39 -- 5.1 Downs and Ups in Campania |
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5.2 Hannibal's Treaty with Philip V of Macedon, 215 -- 5.3 Syracuse -- 5.4 Tarentum -- 5.5 Capua -- 5.6 Conclusion -- Chapter 6 Overseas Commands: Freedoms and Perils -- 6.1 Introduction -- 6.2 How Much Communication with the Authorities at Home? -- 6.3 Peripheral Imperialism: Decision-Making by the Man on the Spot -- 6.4 A Case Study: Italian Locri, 215-204 -- Chapter 7 Politics and Factions at Carthage and Rome -- 7.1 Introduction: Carthage -- 7.2 Rome -- 7.3 The Political Aspect to the 'Trials of the Scipios' |
| Summary |
"The intersecting lives of the great Carthaginian general Hannibal and his Roman adversary Scipio led to one of the most fateful rivalries of antiquity. This absorbing joint biography shows not only how their careers illuminate one another but also how they lived through momentous times which both helped to shape"-- Provided by publisher |
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Includes bibliographical references and index |
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Hannibal, 247 B.C.-182 B.C.
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Scipio, Africanus, approximately 236 B.C.-183 B.C.
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Punic War, 2nd, 218-201 B.C.
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Generals -- Tunisia -- Carthage (Extinct city) -- Biography
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Generals -- Rome -- Biography
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Rome -- History -- Republic, 265-30 B.C.
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Rome -- History, Military -- 265-30 B.C.
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| ISBN |
1009453319 |
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9781009453318 |
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9781009453301 |
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1009453300 |
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