Punic Wars – Bibliography

Below are websites and publications used to research and collate information for the Never Such Innocence resource:

Ancient History Encyclopedia, Syracuse

https://www.ancient.eu/syracuse/

Ancient History Encyclopedia, Carthage

https://www.ancient.eu/carthage/

Ancient History Encyclopedia, Roman Republic

https://www.ancient.eu/Roman_Republic/

BBC Bitesize, The Roman Empire

https://www.bbc.com/bitesize/guides/zfqsgk7/revision/1

BBC History

https://www.bbc.co.uk/history/ancient/romans/enemiesrome_gallery_04.shtml

Biggs, T. (2017) "Primus Romanorum: Origin Stories, Fictions of Primacy, and the First Punic War," Classical Philology 112, no. 3, pp. 350-367.

https://www.journals.uchicago.edu/doi/10.1086/692606

Bragg, M. (2012) Hannibal: In Our Time [Podcast] Available at: https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/topics/Carthaginian_commanders_of_the_Second_Punic_War

Britannica, Carthage, available at:

https://www.britannica.com/event/Punic-Wars/images-videos#/media/1/940971/195487

Britannica, Hannibal: campaign against Rome, available at:

https://www.britannica.com/event/Punic-Wars/images-videos#/media/1/940971/194190

Britannica, Punic Wars

https://www.britannica.com/event/Punic-Wars

Charles, M and Rhodan, P. (2007) ‘Magister Elephantorvm": A Reappraisal of Hannibal's Use of Elephants’, The Classical Word, vol. 100, no. 4, pp. 363 - 389

https://www.jstor.org/stable/25434049?read-now=1&seq=1#page_scan_tab_contentsJ.%20Edwards,%20%E2%80%98The%20Irony%20of%20Hannibal%E2%80%99s%20Elephants%E2%80%99,%20Latomus%2060%20(2001)%20pp.900-5

Edwards, J. (2001) ‘The Irony of Hannibal’s Elephants’, Latomus, vol. 60, no. 4,  pp. 900-905

https://www.jstor.org/stable/pdf/41542312.pdf?seq=1#page_scan_tab_contents

English Heritage

https://www.english-heritage.org.uk/learn/story-of-england/romans/war/

Erickson, G., Walbank, F., Astin, A., Frederiksen, M. and Ogilvie, R. (ed.) (1991). The Cambridge Ancient History: VII Part Two The Rise of Rome to 220 BC, Cambridge University Press. 

https://www.cambridge.org/core/books/cambridge-ancient-history/ECBD1B213970B22B68FAD3BF24AF7E6B#fndtn-contents

Hoyos, D. (2015) ‘Mastering the West: Rome and Carthage at War (Ancient Warfare and civilization), New York: Oxford University Press.

https://www.amazon.co.uk/Mastering-West-Carthage-Ancient-Civilization/dp/0199860106

Hoyos, D. (ed) ‘A Companion to the Punic Wars’, Wiley Blackwell. 

https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/book/10.1002/9781444393712

Khan Academy

https://www.khanacademy.org/humanities/world-history/ancient-medieval/roman-empire/a/roman-republic%20(By%20Steven%20P.%20Schroeder,%20assistant%20professor%20at%20Indiana%20University%20of%20Pennsylvania)

Kiernan B. (2004) The First Genocide: Carthage, 146 BC, Diogenes, vol. 51, no. 3, pp. 27–39.

https://doi.org/10.1177/0392192104043648

Lazenby, J. F. (2016) ‘The First Punic War’, London: Routledge

https://www.taylorfrancis.com/books/9781315072210

Musei Capitolini

http://www.museicapitolini.org/en/percorsi/percorsi_per_sale/appartamento_dei_conservatori/sala_di_annibale

National Geographic, Carthage

https://www.nationalgeographic.org/encyclopedia/carthage/

National Geographic, Roman Republic

https://www.nationalgeographic.org/encyclopedia/roman-republic/

Nossov, K. (2008) ‘War Elephants’, Oxford: Osprey Publishing

https://www.amazon.co.uk/War-Elephants-Vanguard-Konstantin-Nossov/dp/1846032687

Oxford Reference, Timeline: Punic Wars

https://www.oxfordreference.com/view/10.1093/acref/9780191737862.timeline.0001

Quinn, J. (2017) ‘Translating Empire From Carthage to Rome’ , Classical Philology, vol. 112, no. 3, pp. 312 - 331. 

https://www.journals.uchicago.edu/doi/abs/10.1086/692761?journalCode=cp

Swanson, T. (1981) The International Journal of African Historical Studies vol. 14, no. 1, Review of: Hannibal's War, a Military History of the Second Punic War by J. F. Lazenby, University of Oklahoma Press. 

https://www.jstor.org/stable/218132?seq=1#page_scan_tab_contents

Skullard, H (1953) ‘Ennius, Cato and Surus’ The Classical Review, vol. 3, no. 3-4,  pp. 140 - 142. 

https://www.cambridge.org/core/journals/classical-review/article/ennius-cato-and-surus/E27ED78B0F20E050F6205B74B11159D6

Smithsonian

https://www.smithsonianmag.com/smart-news/horse-poo-helps-unravel-mystery-hannibals-route-through-alps-180958660/

The Conversation

https://theconversation.com/how-ancient-horse-dung-bacteria-is-helping-our-team-locate-where-hannibal-crossed-the-alps-57135

The Guardian

where-muck-hannibals-elephants-alps-italy-bill-mahaney-york-university-toronto

Wise, T. (1982) Armies of the Carthaginian Wars 265-146 BC (Men-at-Arms), Oxford: Osprey Publishing. 

https://www.amazon.co.uk/Armies-Carthaginian-Wars-265-146-Men-at-Arms/dp/0850454301

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