The Roman general Scipio and Carthaginian ... in “Hannibal and Scipio: Parallel Lives,” the two men had more in common than ...
“but they never took Rome.” Starved of supplies and fresh troops by his rivals back in Carthage, Hannibal was recalled home to defend the city-state against the depredations of Roman general ...
The advance of the Carthaginian general Hannibal on Rome during the Second Punic War caused havoc to those in his path, and a devastating fire in an Iron Age farmhouse may be evidence of the ...