The First Punic War: A Military History

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Stanford University Press, 1996 - 205 pages
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This is the first comprehensive study of the longest continuous war (264 to 241 b.c.) in ancient history, and, in terms of the numbers of ships and men involved, probably the greatest naval war ever fought.
 

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Table des matières

Shadowboxing and knockout
143
Conclusions
161
Epilogue
171
Notes
177
Abbreviations and bibliography
193
Index
199
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Page 33 - Shores opposed to shores ', says : ' Because it had been provided in the treaty that neither should the Romans approach the shores of the Carthaginians, nor the Carthaginians the shores of the Romans.
Page 16 - Zonaras goes so far as to claim that the greatest mistake the earlier Romans made was to send out different commanders each year, depriving them of command just as they were learning the art of generalship, "as though choosing them for practice, not use".
Page 51 - ... that because of the nature of the land he could not force them to come into close quarters unless they chose, started toward Thapsus, in order that either they might come to the help of the city and so engage his forces, or, if they neglected it, he might capture the place. Now Thapsus is situated on a kind of peninsula, with the sea on one side and a marsh stretching along on the other : between them lies a narrow, swampy isthmus so that one has access to the town from two directions by an extremely...
Page 24 - Gibraltar and down the west coast of Africa at least as far as the Spanish Sahara.

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À propos de l'auteur (1996)

J. F. Lazenby is Professor of Ancient History at the University of Newcastle upon Tyne, English. He is the author of The Spartan Army, The Defense of Greece, 490-479 B.C., and The First Punic War: A Military History.

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