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 ...
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Back to Ancient History Sourcebook | Ancient History Sourcebook: Polybius (c.200-after 118 BCE): Rome at the End of the Punic Wars : ROME, with the end of the third Punic war, 146 B. C., had completely conquered the last of the civilized world. The best authority for this period of her history is Polybius. He was born in Arcadia, in 204 B. C., and died in 122 B. C. Polybius was an officer of the ...
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I N T R O D U C T I O N Back to . . . Archimedes Home Page Drexel University This section . . . Introduction Polybius Livy Plutarch Dio Cassius Hiero II (306 -215 BC) Hannibal( ) (247-183 BC) Hieronymos (230 -214 BC) Marcellus (268-208 BC) Archimedes (287 -212 BC) planning the defenses of Syracuse At the beginning of the third century BC, the Mediterranean basin was controlled by the ...
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Back to Ancient History Sourcebook | Ancient History Sourcebook: Polybius (c.200-after 118 BCE): The Third Punic War, 149-146 BCE The Histories, Book XXXVI: It may occur to some to ask why I have not given a dramatic turn to my narrative, now that I have so striking a theme and a subject of such importance, by recording the actual speeches delivered; a thing which the majority of historians have ...
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READER ADS: Tourist guide requires work | PUT YOUR AD HERE - FREE Click to open Encyclopaedia of the Orient on its front page Punic wars Collective name on the wars between the Punic (the Romans used the name Poeni on the people of Carthage) city state of Carthage (now outside Tunis, Tunisia) and Rome, the first war starting in 264 BCE, and the last ending in 146. The wars were fought between ...
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What does my Nickname mean and where did I find it Publius Cornelius Scipio Iucundus scipio -onis, m. a ceremonial staff. Scipio -onis, m. a family of the gens Cornelia; Scipiades -ae, one of the family of the Scipios, a Scipio. Cornelius -a -um, name of a Roman gens. Adj. Cornelianus -a -um. Publius -i, m. a Roman praenomen, abbrev. P. iucundus -a -um, pleasant, agreeable, delightful. How I ...
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