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Hannibal : a Hellenistic life /

"Hannibal lived a life of incredible feats of daring and survival, massive military engagements, and ultimate defeat. A citizen of Carthage and military commander in Punic Spain, he famously marched his war elephants and huge army over the Alps into Rome's own heartland to fight the Second...

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Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: MacDonald, Eve
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: New Haven : Yale University Press, 2015.
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Acceso en línea:Texto completo
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  • Introduction: no ordinary enemy
  • Hannibal and Carthage
  • The great man in the Hellenistic world: from Alexander to Hamilcar
  • His father's son
  • Barcid Iberia from Gades to Saguntum
  • Legend: Hannibal into Italy
  • Hannibal the conqueror: from the Trebia to Trasimeno
  • The apogee: Cannae and the war in Italy
  • After Cannae
  • Hannibal's dilemma, 212-209
  • Over the Alps, again
  • Hannibal returns
  • Hannibal into exile
  • Epilogue: Hannibal's afterlife.