Second Punic War

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Mediterranean at 218 BC

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Title: Battle scene during Second Punic war, showing hand-to-hand combat] / I. Lamorlet(?) fec Abstract/medium: 1 print : engraving.

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Carthage Tetradrachm Tanit & Horse, with a Serrated Edge. About 200 BC D. = 25 mm. 12.68 g Ag Head of Tanit l. wreathed with corn, wearing a necklace, and a single-drop ear ring./ Horse standing r., left foreleg raised. Beneath between the legs is a Punic letter. Sear 6501.

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La colonna, donata dalla città di Roma, in memoria della Battaglia del Trasimeno e posata presso l'incrocio tra Via Annibale Cartaginese e Via del Porto in occasione del convegno internazionale annibalico del 1961. Il luogo venne ritenuto significativo poichè la teoria del Prof. G. Susini identificava in esso un fulcro della mischia.

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A classical battle, probably depicting the defeat of Hannibal by Scipio Africanus Major (circa 235-183 B.C.).

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L'arrivée en Afrique. Manufacture des Gobelins for Louis XIV 1686-1689. Former royal collections.

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Battle of Zama. Manufacture des Gobelins for Louis XIV 1686-1689. Former royal collections.

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Signatures: [sig.] A-G H² Library's copy bound with: Lucio Paolo Emilio, consolo. Modena : Eredi di Bartolomeo Soliani, [1755] (94-B18125 c. 2) Subjects: Punic War, 2nd, 218-201 B.C; Festivals

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Roman legion at the time of Cannae's battle (216 BC) in Polybius' description - tactic movements

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Map illustrating the aftermath of the First Punic War.

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PInacoteca Nazionale di Siena. Girolamo Genga, Il figlio di Quinto Fabio Massimo riscatta da Annibale i prigionieri romani, 1508-09

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Historical Overview

The Second Punic War was the second of three wars fought between Carthage and Rome, the two main powers of the western Mediterranean in the 3rd century BC. For 17 years the two states struggled for supremacy, primarily in Italy and Iberia, but also on the islands of Sicily and Sardinia and, towards the end of the war, in North Africa. After immense materiel and human losses on both sides, the Carthaginians were once again defeated. Macedonia, Syracuse and several Numidian kingdoms were drawn into the fighting, and Iberian and Gallic forces fought on both sides. There were three main military theatres during the war: Italy, where Hannibal defeated the Roman legions repeatedly, with occasional subsidiary campaigns in Sicily, Sardinia and Greece; Iberia, where Hasdrubal, a younger brother of Hannibal, defended the Carthaginian colonial cities with mixed success before moving into Italy; and Africa, where Rome finally won the war.