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Tag: Hannibal
Polybius, the Historian’s Epitome
Polybius sculpture, modern (image courtesy of Britannica) By Carole Hyde – What would we do without Polybius to tell us of Hannibal’s march to Italy? This historian of Rome overlapped in life (ca. 200-118 BCE) with Hannibal by twenty years; with the Carthaginian’s threat still a living memory, Polybius had […]
Hannibal’s Elephants
Image Courtesy of Jean-Pascal Jospin, Laura Dalaine Hannibal et les Alpes: une traversee in mythe, 2011 By Patrick Hunt – Anyone with some imagination about Hannibal often thinks first of his intrepid army march over the Alps with elephants. I’m often asked more about the elephants than the multicultural army […]
Hannibal and Me: A Review
By Patrick Hunt The subtitle of Andreas Kluth’s insightful book Hannibal and Me is “What History’s Greatest Military Strategist Can Teach Us About Success and Failure”. It has more than just Hannibal wisdom, as expected from a writer for whom history is family and family is history: his great […]
On Hannibals Trail
By Danny Wood Three brothers, Danny, Ben and Sam Wood, search for archaeological traces of Hannibal, the Carthaginian warrior, as they cycle his two thousand mile trail from Spain to Tunisia, for a BBC Television documentary We’d just finished riding up the Tourmalet, known as one of the toughest Tour […]