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PublisherYale University Press
ISBN-100300152043
ISBN-139780300152043
eBay Product ID (ePID)201616280
Product Key Features
Book TitleHannibal : a Hellenistic Life
Number of Pages352 Pages
LanguageEnglish
Publication Year2015
TopicAncient / Rome, Africa / North, Historical, Military
IllustratorYes
GenreBiography & Autobiography, History
AuthorEve Macdonald
FormatHardcover
Dimensions
Item Height0.1 in
Item Weight25.6 Oz
Item Length0.9 in
Item Width0.7 in
Additional Product Features
Intended AudienceTrade
LCCN2014-035399
Dewey Edition23
Reviews"An excellent biography that attempts to understand Hannibal both within and outside the Roman context." --Richard D. Weigel, Bowling Green Daily News
Dewey Decimal937/.04092 B
SynopsisIf history is written by the victors, can we really know Hannibal, whose portrait we see through the eyes of his Roman conquerors?, If history is written by the victors, can we really know Hannibal, whose portrait we see through the eyes of his Roman conquerors? Hannibal lived a life of incredible feats of daring and survival, massive military engagements, 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 expands the memory of Hannibal beyond his military feats and tactics. She considers him in the wider context of the society and vibrant culture of Carthage which shaped him and his family, employing archaeological findings and documentary sources not only from Rome but also the wider Mediterranean world of the third century B.C. 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 military personalities in all of history., If history is written by the victors, can we really know Hannibal, whose portrait we see through the eyes of his Roman conquerors? "Eve MacDonald has produced a real page-turner in this lucid account of Hannibal, the Carthaginian general whose invasion of Italy brought republican Rome almost to her knees. "--Antony Spawforth, author of The Story of Greece and Rome and co-author of The Oxford Classical Dictionary Hannibal lived a life of incredible feats of daring and survival, massive military engagements, 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 expands the memory of Hannibal beyond his military feats and tactics. She considers him in the wider context of the society and vibrant culture of Carthage which shaped him and his family, employing archaeological findings and documentary sources not only from Rome but also the wider Mediterranean world of the third century B.C. 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 military personalities in all of history.
LC Classification NumberDG249.M33 2015
