The First Punic War: A Military HistoryThis 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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according to Polybios Adherbal Africa Agrigentum allies army Atilius attack battle CAH2 Caiatinus Camarina Cape Hermaia captured Carthage Carthage's Carthaginian Carthaginian fleet Carthaginian navy Carthaginian ships Carthalo cavalry Caven certainly citizens Claudius command consuls corvi crews defeat Diodoros Diodoros says disaster Dorey & Dudley Drepana Duilius Ecnomus elephants enemy Eryx Eutropius evidence fighting forces fourth squadron garrison Greek Hamilcar Hamilcar Barca Hannibal harbour Hasdrubal Heraclea Minoa Hiero horse-transports infantry island Italy later legions Libyans Lilybaeum line abeam Lipara Livy lunius Lutatius Mamertines Maximus mercenaries Messana Metellus Mylae naval Numidians operations Orosius Panormus perhaps Philinos Polybios implies Polybios says possibly praetor presumably probably Punic Pyrrhus quinqueremes raids Regulus Rhegium Roman fleet Roman navy Roman ships Rome Rome's sailed Sanctis Sardinia Scipio Scullard Senate sent Sicilian Sicily siege sources story straits suggests Syracuse thaginian Thiel took transports treaty triarii trireme triumph Valerius victory Walbank warships Zonaras
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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...
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