Electronic online publication of the author, 2014. - 129 p. An interesting and fascinating study by a young Spanish scientist tells in detail about the confrontation between two great ancient commanders - the Carthaginian Hannibal Barca and the Roman Publius Scipio Africanus in the final and decisive battle of the Second Punic War - the Battle of Zama (202 BC). In the initial...
Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1967. — 342 p. The relationship of patron and client was a typically Roman institution: a relationship between the weaker and the stronger based on moral obligation and sanctioned by custom and force. This book attempts to show how it became the pattern of Rome's relations with foreign states, how it developed into the chief instrument of Roman...
London: Routledge, 2005. — 80 p. — (Essential Histories). 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...
Berlin - New York: Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co. KG, 2008. – 340 s. – (Beiträge zur Altertumskunde. Band 242). ISBN: 978-3-11-019500-2 ISSN: 1616-0452. Die vorliegende Arbeit unterzieht die in der sozialgeschichtlichen Forschung vorherrschende Meinung, dass die Gesellschaft des Römischen Reiches eine ständische Gesellschaft gewesen sei, am Beispiel der römischen Provinz...
München: C. H. Beck, 1955.-XIV, 166 S.- (Zetemata Bd. 13). THE tribunate, a 'potestas in seditione et ad seditionem nata', was in two periods of its history a revolutionary organ (during the Struggle of the Orders and again in the last century of the Republic), but for the intervening 150 years it existed as a legalized office of the State and its holders did not necessarily...
Cambridge - New York: Cambridge University Press, 2011. – 410 p. ISBN: 978-0-521-19000-8 Hardback In this bold new interpretation of the origins of ancient Rome’s overseas empire, Dr. Burton charts the impactof the psychology, language, and gesture associated with the ancient Roman concept of amicitia,or friendship. The book challenges the prevailing orthodox Cold Warera...
Pen & Sword Books, 2007. — 232 p. — ISBN: 978-1-594160-75-9. In 202 BC, near the North African city of Zama, the armies of two empires clashed. The Romans under Scipio Africanus won a bloody, decisive victory over Hannibal's Carthaginians. Scipio's victory signalled a shift in the balance of power in the ancient world. Thereafter, Rome became the dominant civilization of the...
Walter de Gruyter, 2017. — viii + 468 p. — (KLIO. Beiträge z. Alten Geschichte — Beihefte. Neue Folge, Bd. 28). Scholarship has widely debated the question about the existence of an 'Italian identity' in the time of the Roman Republic, basing on the few sources available and on the outcomes of the Augustan and imperial age. In this sense, this debate has for a long time been...
University of California Press, 2004. — 343 p. Polybius was a Greek statesman and political prisoner of Rome in the second century b.c.e. His Histories provide the earliest continuous narrative of the rise of the Roman Empire. In this original study informed by recent work in cultural studies and on ethnicity, Craige Champion demonstrates that Polybius's work performs a...
Routledge, 2002. — 252 p. — ISBN: 0-203-98750-0; ISBN: 0-415-26147-3. Gregory Daly's enthralling study considers the reasons that led the two armies to the field of battle, and why each followed the course that they did when they got there. It explores in detail the composition of the armies, and the tactics and leadership methods of the opposing generals. Finally, by focusing...
Monograph. - Oxford: Blackwell Publishing, 2008. - xi, 439 p. ISBN: 978-1-405-16072-8. Rome in Contact with the Greek East, 230 – 205 BC. Roman Expansion and the Pressures of Anarchy. Rome and Illyria, ca. 230 – 217 bc. Rome, the Greek States, and Macedon, 217 – 205 bc. The Power-Transition Crisis in the Greek. Mediterranean, 207 – 200 BC. The Pact Between the Kings and the...
Routledge Kegan and Paul, 1987. — 183 p. The Roman Republic was governed by a group of men who agreed far more than they disagreed on the fundamental questions facing the state. The detail of their public behaviour' can only be under tood through consider a Lion of the personal motives so deeply embedded in Roman society. One of the most importantly such motives is that of...
Pen and Sword, 2010. — 208 p. The third in the Roman Conquests series will briefly cover Rome's first forays into the dark continent during the First and Second Punic Wars, then cover in detail her vindictive final conquest and destruction of Carthage in the Third Punic War. The subsequent long wars against the slippery Numidian prince, Jugurtha, which tested the Roman military...
New York: Cambridge University Press, 2010. – 403 p. ISBN13: 978-0-511-74247-7 eBook (Dawsonera) ISBN13: 978-0-521-51694-5 Hardback Hannibal invaded Italy with the hope of raising widespread rebellions among Rome’s subordinate allies. Yet even after crushing the Roman army at Cannae, he was only partially successful. Why did some communities decide to side with Carthage and...
Rebis, 2010. — 392 p. Scypion Afrykanski Starszy - pogromca Hannibala - paradoksalnie pozostaje w jego cieniu na kartach historii. Pochodzacy z zasluzonego dla republiki rodu Korneliuszów zwyciezca spod Zamy, wódz, który nie zaznal smaku kleski, który zrewolucjonizowal rzymska taktyke militarna, który wreszcie rozszerzyl panowanie Rzymu na Hiszpanie i Afryke - pozostaje dzis...
Cassell, 2002. — 192 p. On August 2, 216 BC, in the Italian town of Cannae, Hannibal won his greatest victory. In one of the bloodiest battles ever, his outnumbered mercenaries massacred the greater part of Rome's large army. For the Romans, Cannae became the yardstick against which all other defeats were measured; for generals centuries after, it became a perfectly executed...
2nd Edition — Basic Books, 2019. — 256 p. August 2, 216 BC was one of history's bloodiest single days of fighting. On a narrow plain near the Southern Italian town of Cannae, despite outnumbering their opponents almost two to one, a massive Roman army was crushed by the heterogeneous forces of Hannibal, the Carthaginian general who had spectacularly crossed the Alps into Italy...
2nd Edition — Basic Books, 2019. — 256 p. August 2, 216 BC was one of history's bloodiest single days of fighting. On a narrow plain near the Southern Italian town of Cannae, despite outnumbering their opponents almost two to one, a massive Roman army was crushed by the heterogeneous forces of Hannibal, the Carthaginian general who had spectacularly crossed the Alps into Italy...
Cassell, 2007. — 412 p. The struggle between Rome and Carthage in the Punic Wars was arguably the greatest and most desperate conflict of antiquity. The forces involved and the casualties suffered by both sides were far greater than in any wars fought before the modern era, while the eventual outcome had far-reaching consequences for the history of the Western World, namely the...
Cassell, 2007. — 412 p. The struggle between Rome and Carthage in the Punic Wars was arguably the greatest and most desperate conflict of antiquity. The forces involved and the casualties suffered by both sides were far greater than in any wars fought before the modern era, while the eventual outcome had far-reaching consequences for the history of the Western World, namely the...
Oxford University Press, 1979. — 308 p. Between 327 and 70 B.C. the Romans expanded their empire throughout the Mediterranean world. This highly original study looks at Roman attitudes and behavior that lay behind their quest for power. How did Romans respond to warfare, year after year? How important were the material gains of military success--land, slaves, and other...
Blackwell Publishing, 2011. — 576 p. ISBN: 1405176008. A Companion to the Punic Wars offers a comprehensive new survey of the three wars fought between Rome and Carthage between 264 and 146 BC. - Offers a broad survey of the Punic Wars from a variety of perspectives. - Features contributions from an outstanding cast of international scholars with unrivalled expertise. -...
Oxford University Press, 2015. — 360 p. To say the Punic Wars (264-146 BC) were a turning point in world history is a vast understatement. This bloody and protracted conflict pitted two flourishing Mediterranean powers against one another, leaving one an unrivalled giant and the other a literal pile of ash. To later observers, a collision between these civilizations seemed...
University of Michigan Press, 2008. — 245 p. The great mathematician Archimedes, a Sicilian Greek whose machines defended Syracuse against the Romans during the Second Punic War, was killed by a Roman after the city fell, yet it is largely Roman sources, and Greek texts aimed at Roman audiences, that preserve the stories about him. Archimedes' story, Mary Jaeger argues, thus...
Bellona, 2003. — 342 p. — (Historyczne Bitwy). The Battle of Magnesia was the concluding battle of the Roman–Seleucid War, fought in 190 BC near Magnesia ad Sipylum on the plains of Lydia between Romans, led by the consul Lucius Cornelius Scipio and the Roman ally Eumenes II of Pergamum, and the army of Antiochus III the Great of the Seleucid Empire. A decisive Roman victory...
Springer, 2017. — 864 s. Dieser Band widmet sich einem der wichtigsten Abschnitte der römischen Geschichte, dem Zeitalter der Punischen Kriege. In diesem erbittert geführten Konflikt konnte sich Rom gegen seinen größten Konkurrenten im westlichen Mittelmeer durchsetzen und dabei den Grundstein für seinen weiteren Aufstieg zur Weltmacht legen. Karthago indes verschwand 146...
Pen and Sword, 2009. — 208 p. In the late 3rd century BC, while Rome struggled for her very survival against the Carthaginians in the Second Punic War, Philip V of Macedon allied with Hannibal in pursuit of his dream for a new Macedonian empire. Once Carthage was defeated, however, the Roman army for the first time turned its full attention to the Greek world. The stage was set...
Pen and Sword History, 2018. — 208 p. he history of the Fabii Maximii is in many ways that of the Roman Republic. In the legends and historical scraps that survived the Republic, the members of the Fabius clan were, more often than not, the hammers that forged the empire. Few families contributed more to the survival and success of the Republic and for so many centuries. Few...
Routledge, 2002. — 208 p. In this original and revealing work, Jeremiah B. McCall challenges the generally accepted view of the Roman cavalry and explores the fundamental connections between war and society in republican Rome, c.300-100 BC. McCall describes the citizen cavalry's equipment, tactics, and motivation in battle, and argues for its effectiveness in the field. This...
Bellona, 2008. — 290 p. — (Historyczne Bitwy). The Siege of Carthage was the main engagement of the Third Punic War between the Punic city of Carthage in Africa and the Roman Republic. It was a siege operation, starting sometime in 149 or 148 BC, and ending in spring 146 BC with the sack and complete destruction of the city of Carthage. Książka jest jedyną pozycją w polskim...
Random House Paperbacks, 2010. — 336 p. For millennia, Carthage’s triumph over Rome at Cannae in 216 B.C. has inspired reverence and awe. No general since has matched Hannibal’s most unexpected, innovative, and brutal military victory. Now Robert L. O’Connell, one of the most admired names in military history, tells the whole story of Cannae for the first time, giving us a...
Pennsylvania, US Army War College, 2001. — 47 p. The period of time, 225-202 BC, in the Western Mediterranean, was a crucial turning point in the history of the Western World. The Roman Republic defeated its greatest rival, Carthage, and set the stage for Rome’s 600 years domination of the Western World. It determined which culture, Greek/Roman or Semitic/Phoenician, would...
London – New York: Routledge, 1993. – 289 p. ISBN 0-203-41844-1 Master e-book ISBN ISBN 0-203-72668-5 (Adobe eReader Format) ISBN 0-415-08261-7 0-415-08150-5 (pbk) Nearly three thousand years ago the Phoenicians set up trading colonies on the coast of North Africa, and ever since successive civilizations have been imposed on the local inhabitants, largely from outside....
Cambridge University Press, 2004. — 232 p. This book traces the beginnings and the first 140 years of the Roman presence in Spain, showing how what began as a purely military commitment developed in addition into a range of civilian activities including taxation, jurisdiction and the founding of both Roman and native settlements. The author uses literary sources, the results of...
Oxford - New York: Oxford University Press, 2010. – 371 p. – (Oxford Studies in Roman Society and Law). ISBN 978–0–19–957723–1 In the first volume in this new series on Roman society and law, Saskia T. Roselaar traces the social and economic history of the ager publicus, or public land. As the Romans conquered Italy during the fourth to first centuries BC, they usually took...
University of California Press, 1990. — 63 p. Given the intense competition among aristocrats seeking public office in the middle and late Roman Republic, one would expect that their persistent struggles for honor, glory, and power could have seriously undermined the state or damaged the cohesiveness of the ruling class. Rome in fact depended on aristocratic competition, since...
Pen and Sword, 2016. — 304 p. The two decades between the end of the First Punic War and the beginning of the Second represent a key period in the development of Rome’s imperial ambitions, both within Italy and beyond. Within Italy, Rome faced an invasion of Gauls from Northern Italy, which threatened the very existence of the Roman state. This war culminated at the Battle of...
London: Longmans, Green and Company, 1917. — 252 p. R. Bosworth Smith's Rome and Carthage: The Punic Wars is a concise but comprehensive history of the three wars that determined the fate of two empires and the domination of the Mediterranean. The Punic Wars made legends out of Hannibal and Scipio Africanus, destroyed Carthage as a center of influence, and paved the way for...
New York; Abingdon: Routledge, 1996. — XII, 264 p. State, Society, and Popular Leaders profiles the incorporation of the lower classes into the governing system of ancient Rome. In 287, the Hortensian law made the decisions of the plebs binding on the whole people. This event is often referred to as the great plebeian victory, a landmark in Roman history. In this original...
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