Author: Andrew Haggard
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 430
Book Description
Hannibal's Daughter
Hannibal's Dynasty
Author: Dexter Hoyos
Publisher: Psychology Press
ISBN: 9780415359580
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 328
Book Description
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.
Publisher: Psychology Press
ISBN: 9780415359580
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 328
Book Description
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
Author: Eve MacDonald
Publisher: Yale University Press
ISBN: 0300210159
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 357
Book Description
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.
Publisher: Yale University Press
ISBN: 0300210159
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 357
Book Description
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.
The Cambridge History of Africa
Author: J. D. Fage
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 9780521215923
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 898
Book Description
After the prehistory of Volume I, Volume II deals with the beginnings of history from 500 B.C. to A.D. 1050.
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 9780521215923
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 898
Book Description
After the prehistory of Volume I, Volume II deals with the beginnings of history from 500 B.C. to A.D. 1050.
Encyclopaedia Perthensis, Or, Universal Dictionary of the Arts, Sciences, Literature, Etc. : Intended to Supersede the Use of Other Books of Reference
Author:
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Encyclopedias and dictionaries
Languages : en
Pages : 772
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Encyclopedias and dictionaries
Languages : en
Pages : 772
Book Description
Roman Presences
Author: Catharine Edwards
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 9780521591973
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 316
Book Description
This collection of essays explores aspects of the reception of ancient Rome in a number of European countries from the late eighteenth century to the end of the Second World War. Rome has been made to stand for literary authority, republican heroism, imperial power and decline, the Catholic Church, the pleasure of ruins. The studies offered here examine some of the sometimes strange and unexpected places where Roman presences have manifested themselves during this period. Scholars from several disciplines, including English literature and history of art, as well as classics, bring to bear a variety of approaches on a wide range of images and texts, from statues of Napoleon to Freud's analysis of dreams. Rome's seemingly boundless capacity for multiple, indeed conflicting, signification has made it an extraordinarily fertile paradigm for making sense of - and also for destabilizing - history, politics, identity, memory and desire.
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 9780521591973
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 316
Book Description
This collection of essays explores aspects of the reception of ancient Rome in a number of European countries from the late eighteenth century to the end of the Second World War. Rome has been made to stand for literary authority, republican heroism, imperial power and decline, the Catholic Church, the pleasure of ruins. The studies offered here examine some of the sometimes strange and unexpected places where Roman presences have manifested themselves during this period. Scholars from several disciplines, including English literature and history of art, as well as classics, bring to bear a variety of approaches on a wide range of images and texts, from statues of Napoleon to Freud's analysis of dreams. Rome's seemingly boundless capacity for multiple, indeed conflicting, signification has made it an extraordinarily fertile paradigm for making sense of - and also for destabilizing - history, politics, identity, memory and desire.
The new encyclopædia; or, Universal dictionary ofarts and sciences
Author: Encyclopaedia Perthensis
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 792
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 792
Book Description
The Wedding Cup
Author: Thomas Geisler
Publisher: Xlibris Corporation
ISBN: 1450045251
Category : Humor
Languages : en
Pages : 217
Book Description
Based on actual events during the Second Punic War between Rome and Carthage, The Wedding Cup is a drama about the tragic love triangle between Sophonisba, a Carthaginian generals daughter, and the rival rulers of two North African states. As Scipio, the Roman general, prepares to invade Africa, Sophonisba must make dreadful choices which will ultimately shape history. No Woman is an Island is a comic short drama variation of the Theseus/Ariadne myth in which they land on the wrong island and all Hellas breaks loose. In the Beginning describes Gods frustrated attempts to explain how the universe was created to Moses, to help him write Genesis. In CAFeFIEND a nervous Greenwich Village date takes several unexpected bounces, but ends in poetic justice.
Publisher: Xlibris Corporation
ISBN: 1450045251
Category : Humor
Languages : en
Pages : 217
Book Description
Based on actual events during the Second Punic War between Rome and Carthage, The Wedding Cup is a drama about the tragic love triangle between Sophonisba, a Carthaginian generals daughter, and the rival rulers of two North African states. As Scipio, the Roman general, prepares to invade Africa, Sophonisba must make dreadful choices which will ultimately shape history. No Woman is an Island is a comic short drama variation of the Theseus/Ariadne myth in which they land on the wrong island and all Hellas breaks loose. In the Beginning describes Gods frustrated attempts to explain how the universe was created to Moses, to help him write Genesis. In CAFeFIEND a nervous Greenwich Village date takes several unexpected bounces, but ends in poetic justice.
A Universal History of the Nations of Antiquity
Author: Frederick Guest Tomlins
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : History, Ancient
Languages : en
Pages : 950
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : History, Ancient
Languages : en
Pages : 950
Book Description
Genealogical Tables of the Sovereigns of the World
Author: William Betham
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Chronology, Historical
Languages : en
Pages : 568
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Chronology, Historical
Languages : en
Pages : 568
Book Description