Hannibals March Through The Al
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Hannibal
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Author : Eve MacDonald
language : en
Publisher: Yale University Press
Release Date : 2015-02-24
Hannibal written by Eve MacDonald and has been published by Yale University Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2015-02-24 with Biography & Autobiography categories.
The life of the great Carthaginian general who marched into Rome during the Second Punic War is reexamined in this revealing and scholarly biography. Once of the greatest military minds of the Ancient World, Hannibal Barca lived a life of daring and survival, massive battles, 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 Punic War. Yet the Romans were the ultimate victors. They eventually captured and destroyed Carthage, and thus it was they who wrote the legend of Hannibal: a brilliant and worthy enemy whose defeat represented military glory for Rome. In this groundbreaking biography, Eve MacDonald employs archaeological findings and documentary sources to expand the memory of Hannibal beyond his military career. Considering him in the context of his time and the Carthaginian culture that shaped him, MacDonald offers a complex portrait of a man from a prominent family who was both a military hero and a statesman. MacDonald also analyzes Hannibal’s legend over the millennia, exploring how statuary, Jacobean tragedy, opera, nineteenth-century fiction, and other depictions illuminate the character of one of the most fascinating figures in all of history.
Hannibal
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Author : Richard A. Gabriel
language : en
Publisher: Potomac Books, Inc.
Release Date : 2011-02-28
Hannibal written by Richard A. Gabriel and has been published by Potomac Books, Inc. this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2011-02-28 with History categories.
The Romans' destruction of Carthage after the Third Punic War erased any Carthaginian historical record of Hannibal's life. What we know of him comes exclusively from Roman historians who had every interest in minimizing his success, exaggerating his failures, and disparaging his character. The charges leveled against Hannibal include greed, cruelty and atrocity, sexual indulgence, and even cannibalism. But even these sources were forced to grudgingly admit to Hannibal's military genius, if only to make their eventual victory over him appear greater. Yet there is no doubt that Hannibal was the greatest Carthaginian general of the Second Punic War. When he did not defeat them outright, he fought to a standstill the best generals Rome produced, and he sustained his army in the field for sixteen long years without mutiny or desertion. Hannibal was a first-rate tactician, only a somewhat lesser strategist, and the greatest enemy Rome ever faced. When he at last met defeat at the hands of the Roman general Scipio, it was against an experienced officer who had to strengthen and reconfigure the Roman legion and invent mobile tactics in order to succeed. Even so, Scipio's victory at Zama was against an army that was a shadow of its former self. The battle could easily have gone the other way. If it had, the history of the West would have been changed in ways that can only be imagined. Richard A. Gabriel's brilliant new biography shows how Hannibal's genius nearly unseated the Roman Empire.
Hannibal
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Author : Theodore Ayrault Dodge
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1891
Hannibal written by Theodore Ayrault Dodge and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1891 with Military art and science categories.
Hannibal S Dynasty
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Author : Dexter Hoyos
language : en
Publisher: Psychology Press
Release Date : 2005
Hannibal S Dynasty written by Dexter Hoyos and has been published by Psychology Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2005 with Education categories.
Hannibal's family dominated Carthage and its empire for the last forty years of the third century BC. This book provides the full story of Carthage's achievement during that time.
Hannibal
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Author : Philip Freeman
language : en
Publisher: Simon and Schuster
Release Date : 2022-02-01
Hannibal written by Philip Freeman and has been published by Simon and Schuster this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2022-02-01 with History categories.
Telling the story of a man who stood against the overwhelming power of the mighty Roman empire, Hannibal is the biography of a man who, against all odds, dared to change the course of history. Over two thousand years ago one of the greatest military leaders in history almost destroyed Rome. Hannibal, a daring African general from the city of Carthage, led an army of warriors and battle elephants over the snowy Alps to invade the very heart of Rome's growing empire. But what kind of person would dare to face the most relentless imperial power of the ancient world? How could Hannibal, consistently outnumbered and always deep in enemy territory, win battle after battle until he held the very fate of Rome within his grasp? Hannibal appeals to many as the ultimate underdog—a Carthaginian David against the Goliath of Rome—but it wasn't just his genius on the battlefield that set him apart. As a boy and then a man, his self-discipline and determination were legendary. As a military leader, like Alexander the Great before him and Julius Caesar after, he understood the hearts of men and had an uncanny ability to read the unseen weaknesses of his enemy. As a commander in war, Hannibal has few equals in history and has long been held as a model of strategic and tactical genius. But Hannibal was much more than just a great general. He was a practiced statesman, a skilled diplomat, and a man deeply devoted to his family and country. Roman historians—on whom we rely for almost all our information on Hannibal—portray him as a cruel barbarian, but how does the story change if we look at Hannibal from the Carthaginian point of view? Can we search beneath the accounts of Roman writers who were eager to portray Hannibal as a monster and find a more human figure? Can we use the life of Hannibal to look at the Romans themselves in an unfamiliar way— not as the noble and benign defenders of civilization but as ruthless conquerors motivated by greed and conquest?
The March Of Hannibal From The Rhone To The Alps
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Author : Henry Lawes Long
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1831
The March Of Hannibal From The Rhone To The Alps written by Henry Lawes Long and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1831 with Punic War, 2nd, 218-201 B.C. categories.
Great Captains Hannibal
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Author : Theodore Ayrault Dodge
language : en
Publisher: Lancer Publishers
Release Date : 1992
Great Captains Hannibal written by Theodore Ayrault Dodge and has been published by Lancer Publishers this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1992 with categories.
The History Of Rome
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Author : Barthold Georg Niebuhr
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1844
The History Of Rome written by Barthold Georg Niebuhr and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1844 with Rome categories.
Hannibal
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Author : Dexter Hoyos
language : en
Publisher: Liverpool University Press
Release Date : 2022-04-02
Hannibal written by Dexter Hoyos and has been published by Liverpool University Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2022-04-02 with History categories.
Hannibal’s enduring reputation as a man and as a general is due to his enemies’ fascination with him. The way his legend was shaped in the Greek and Roman consciousness is one of the book’s main themes. Under Hannibal’s leadership, Carthage came close to dominating the western Mediterranean; his total victory would have changed the course of history. That he was a brilliant general is unquestioned and his strategy and tactics have been studied as real-life lessons in war even into the modern era (Norman Schwartzkopf is a fan). His political career is less appreciated and his achievements as civilian leader of Carthage in 196-5 BC have been virtually overlooked. The issue of whether he might indeed have changed history had he postponed conflict with Rome and concentrated first on Carthage’s own prosperity and safety is explored in this volume as vigorously as the military questions.
The Athenaeum
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Author :
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1866
The Athenaeum written by and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1866 with categories.