The Punic Wars: Rome, Carthage, and the Struggle for the Mediterranean
by Nigel Bagnall
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The Punic Wars (264-146BC)sprang from a mighty power struggle between two ancient civilisations - the trading empire of Carthage and the military confedoration of Rome. It was a period of astonishing human misfortune, lasting over a period of 118 years and resulting in the radical depletion of Rome's population and resources and the complete annihilation of Carthage. All this took place more than 2, 000 years ago, yet, as Nigel Bagnall's comprehensive history demonstrates, the ancient show more conflict is remarkable for its contemporary revelance. show lessTags
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- Canonical title
- The Punic Wars: Rome, Carthage, and the Struggle for the Mediterranean
- Original title
- The Punic Wars: Rome, Carthage, and the Struggle for the Mediterranean
- Important places
- Carthage; Ancient Rome; Mediterranean Sea
- Important events
- Punic Wars (264 BCE | 146 BCE); First Punic War (264 BCE | 241 BCE); Second Punic War (218 BCE | 201 BCE); Third Punic War (149 BCE | 146 BCE)
- Dedication*
- Den Soldaten der NATO
- First words*
- Eine der Schwierigkeiten nachgeborener Generationen liegt darin, daß nicht jeder ein großer Entdecker sein kann und wir uns meist nur zu Erben von anderer Leute Erfahrungen bestimmt finden.
- Disambiguation notice
- Nigel Bagnell has written two different books whose title begins with the words 'The Punic Wars'. One is a full length treatment of over 300 pages, entitled The Punic Wars: Rome, Carthage, and the Struggle for the Mediter... (show all)ranean; the other is a brief work of less than 100 pages entitled The Punic Wars 264-146 BC (Essential Histories). Please do not combine these.
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- Genres
- History, Nonfiction, General Nonfiction
- DDC/MDS
- 937.04 — History & geography History of ancient world (to ca. 499) Italian Peninsula to 476 and adjacent territories to 476 Punic wars 264-146 B.C.
- LCC
- DG242 .B339 — History of Europe, Asia, Africa and Oceania City History of Italy Ancient Italy. Rome to 476 History By period Kings and Republic, 753-27 B.C. Republic, 509-27 Conquest of Mediterranean world. 264-133 First and Second Punic Wars. Illyrian
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- English, German
- Media
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