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Cornelius Nepos, Life of Hannibal

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Trebia. Trasimene. Cannae. With three stunning victories, Hannibal humbled Rome and nearly shattered its empire. Even today Hannibal's brilliant, if ultimately unsuccessful, campaign against Rome during the Second Punic War (218-202 BC) make him one of history's most celebrated military leaders. This biography by Cornelius Nepos (c. 100-27 BC) sketches Hannibal's life from the time he began traveling with his father's army as a young boy, through his sixteen-year invasion of Italy and his ...


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  • Publisher : Open Book Publishers
  • Series : Dickinson College commentaries
  • Place of publication : Cambridge
  • Year of publication : 2015
  • Published on OpenEdition Books : 29 novembre 2016
  • EAN (Print version) : 978-1-78374-132-8
  • Electronic EAN : 978-2-8218-7620-0
  • Number of pages : 174 p.

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