History: Review of New Books, June 22nd, 1999
Lancel, Serge Hannibal Trans. Antonia Nevill Oxford: Blackwell Publishers 243 pp., $34.95, ISBN 0-631-20631-0 Publication Date: April 1998
"Nothing and nobody could cause Trajan's Rome to tremble, at the height of its power yet, three centuries later, the memory was still alive of the one enemy who had come within inches of nipping in the bud the greatest undertaking of political and territorial domination the world has ever known" (220-221). This was Hannibal, Carthaginian leader, general, statesman, and Rome's nemesis in the late third century B.C.E.
Serge Lancel has established himself ...
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