Back to Ancient History SourceBook Ancient History Sourcebook: Aristotle: On the Constitution of Carthage, c. 340 BCE The Carthaginians are also considered to have an excellent form of government, which differs from that of any other state in several respects, though it is in some very like the Spartan. Indeed, all three states---the Spartan, the Cretan, and the Carthaginian---nearly resemble ...

Back to Ancient History Sourcebook | Ancient History Sourcebook: Polybius (c.200-after 118 BCE): The Character of Hannibal The Histories, Book IX, Chapters 22-26: Of all that befell the Romans and Carthaginians, good or bad, the cause was one man and one mind---Hannibal. For it is notorious that he managed the Italian campaigns in person, and the Spanish by the agency of the elder of his ...