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Truceless war
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ISSN: 13857827 ISBN: 1281936170 9786611936174 9047421922 9789047421924 9789004160767 9004160760 Year: 2007 Volume: v. 45 Publisher: Leiden Boston Brill

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The revolt of Carthage’s mercenaries and oppressed Libyan subjects in 241–237 BC nearly ended her power and even existence. This ‘truceless’ war, unrivalled for its savagery, was fought over most of Punic North Africa and spread to Sardinia. It brought to power in Carthage Hamilcar Barca, father of Hannibal, whose generalship—though flawed—was critical to Carthage’s final victory. The main narrative, by the Greek historian Polybius a century later, is vividly evocative (inspiring Flaubert’s novel Salammbô ) yet repeatedly unclear on military and geographical details, the extent and structure of the rebel coalition, and chronology. Truceless War analyses Polybius and other sources to present a coherent and absorbing study of the war’s causes and events, and of Polybius’ historiographical methods.

Histoire militaire des guerres puniques
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ISBN: 2268021475 9782268021478 Year: 1996 Publisher: Monaco : Les Editions du Rocher,

Carthago: acta colloquii Bruxellensis habiti diebus 2 et 3 mensis Maii anni 1986. 6
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ISBN: 9068311069 9789068311068 Year: 1988 Volume: 6 26 Publisher: Leuven : Editions Peeters,


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Hannibal ad portas : Macht und Reichtum Karthagos
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ISBN: 3937345000 3806218927 Year: 2004 Publisher: Stuttgart : Theiss,


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Rom und Karthago zwischen Krieg und Frieden : Rechtshistorische Untersuchungen zu den römisch-karthagischen Beziehungen zwischen 241 v.Chr. und 149 v.Chr
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ISBN: 3631395981 9783631395981 Year: 2002 Volume: 937 Publisher: Zürich : Peter Lang,


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Carthage in Virgil's Aeneid : staging the enemy under Augustus
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ISBN: 9781108241960 9781108416801 9781108404181 1108404189 1108266088 1108241964 1108271545 1108416802 Year: 2018 Publisher: Cambridge : Cambridge University Press,

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Founded upon more than a century of civil bloodshed, the first imperial regime of ancient Rome, the Principate of Caesar Augustus, looked at Rome's distant and glorious past in order to justify and promote its existence under the disguise of a restoration of the old Republic. In doing so, it used and revisited the history and myth of Rome's major success against external enemies: the wars against Carthage. This book explores the ideological use of Carthage in the most authoritative of the Augustan literary texts, the Aeneid of Virgil. It analyses the ideological portrait of Carthaginians from the middle Republic and the truth-twisting involved in writing about the Punic Wars under the Principate. It also investigates the mirroring between Carthage and Rome in a poem whose primary concern was rather the traumatic memory of Civil War and the subsequent subversion of Rome's Republican institutions through the establishment of Augustus' Principate.

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