A comprehensive account of the more than century-long conflict between ancient Rome's military confederation and the trading empire of Carthage outlines the war's campaigns in Spain, Africa, Sicily, and the Pelopponese; covers such topics as the politics and casualties of both sides; and identifies period military principles that are in use today.

The three Punic Wars lasted over 100 years, between 264 BC and 146 BC. They represented a struggle for supremacy in the Mediterranean between the bludgeoning land power of Rome, bent on imperial conquest, and the great maritime power of Carthage with its colonies and trading posts spread around the Mediterranean. This book reveals how the dramas and tragedies of the Punic Wars exemplify many political and military lessons which are as relevant today as when Hannibal and Scipio Africanus fought to determine the course of history in the Mediterranean.

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Product Description: In this volume are collected eleven major papers, translated into English, by J.H. Thiel (1896-1974), who was professor of Ancient History in the Universities of Leiden and Utrecht. The papers here collected are representative of the three most important fields Thiel's research covered...read more

Product Description: This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important, and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it. This work was reproduced from the original artifact, and remains as true to the original work as possible...read more