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Perpetua's Passion
Perpetua's Passion studies the third-century martyrdom of a young woman and places it in the intellectual and social context of her age. Conflicting ideas of religion, family and gender are explored as Salisbury follows Perpetua from her youth in a wealthy Roman household to her imprisonment and death in the arena.
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Hannibal : Rome's worst nightmare
An introduction to Hannibal, who, \"as a child ... swore to make an enemy of one of the most powerful nations on earth. He spent his life living up to the promise: all across the land, he made Romans dread the sound of one familiar phrase: Hannibal is at the gates\"--Amazon.com.
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Hannibal of Carthage
In journal form, provides an introduction to the life and career of the military leader who never lost a major battle, and whose strategies are still studied today.
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Hannibal : a Hellenistic life
\"Hannibal lived a life of incredible feats of daring and survival, massive military engagements, and ultimate defeat. A citizen of Carthage and military commander in Punic Spain, he famously marched his war elephants and huge army over the Alps into Rome's own heartland to fight the Second Punic War. Yet the Romans were the ultimate victors. They eventually captured and destroyed Carthage, and thus it was they who wrote the legend of Hannibal: a brilliant and worthy enemy whose defeat represented military glory for Rome. In this groundbreaking biography Eve MacDonald expands the memory of Hannibal beyond his military feats and tactics. She considers him in the wider context of the society and vibrant culture of Carthage which shaped him and his family, employing archaeological findings and documentary sources not only from Rome but also the wider Mediterranean world of the third century B.C. MacDonald also analyzes Hannibal's legend over the millennia, exploring how statuary, Jacobean tragedy, opera, nineteenth-century fiction, and other depictions illuminate the character of one of the most fascinating military personalities in all of history\"-- Provided by publisher.
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