... shores for the first time, until the last years of the third century BC, when, as a result of the Second Punic War, the whole area came under the rule of the Roman Republic. It examines the role of colonial trade in the transformation of indigenous Iberian societies in different regions during the period...

...0 28 02 2024 © Samuel Agbamu 2024 2024 Samuel Agbamu This chapter considers the imperial ideology encoded in Giovanni Pastrone’s landmark film Cabiria (1914). This film is set against the backdrop of the Second Punic War and is deeply intertwined with the imperialist rhetoric...

...This chapter discusses Romans’ experience of the Second Punic War (218–202 B.C.E.). It first examines the major defeats that marked the opening years of the war (at the Ticinus, the Trebia, Lake Trasimene, and, most famously, Cannae) and the ways in which Romans (the Roman Senate, collectively...

...This chapter contextualizes Rome and its economy at the time of the Second Punic War. By the outbreak of the war, Rome was probably already one of the most significant cities in the Mediterranean. She controlled peninsular Italy, Corsica, Sardinia, and part of Sicily and was already beginning...

...The Africa is Petrarch’s epic on the Second Punic War and the glorious career of Scipio Africanus Maior. The very rumour of its composition was enough to gain for the poet the laurel crown bestowed on him by the city of Rome in 1341; but the poem itself, jealously guarded by its...

...The Politics of Identity in Greek Sicily and Southern Italy. Mark R. Thatcher, Oxford University Press. © Oxford University Press 2021. DOI: 10.1093/oso/9780197586440.003.0007 The conclusion uses the Second Punic War as a test case for the results reached throughout the book...

...This chapter discusses the Plautine slave and history. It adds that the Plautine moment and Hannibalic moment coincide and the two major themes are both resonant of the shock of the Second Punic War. It explains that the Plautus who emerges from this investigation is on whose comedies persistently...

... of conducting war at sea; and how the wounded were treated. A final section offers six case studies, including analyses of the Peloponnesian War, the Second Punic War, and Rome's war with Sasanian Persia. The book closes with an epilogue that offers an exploration of the legacy of classical warfare....

...This chapter discusses the first world war of the ancient Mediterranean: the Second Punic War. It was fought on two continents from Spain and Africa to the Aegean, and was marked by the generalship of the initially victorious Hannibal and the ultimately victorious Scipio Africanus. The war shows...

... neighbor and adversary Veii in 398 BCE to the end of the Second Punic War in 202 BCE, demonstrating how the Roman state was redefined through the twin pillars of temple construction and pilgrimage. The book sheds light on how the proliferation of temples together with changes to Rome's calendar created new...

...This book examines the implications of Rome’s many military defeats during the Roman Republic. Tracing responses to defeat from the Second Punic War through the second century B.C.E., it reconsiders the triumphalist narratives that have sometimes dominated studies of the culture of politics...