The Roman Hannibal: Remembering the Enemy in Silius Italicus’ ‘Punica’

Claire Stocks  / Liverpool University Press, 2014

Reviewed by John Jacobs, 

The Roman Hannibal 1. The Roman Hannibal Defined 2. Before Silius: The Creation of the Roman Hannibal 3. Silius’ Influences 4. Epic Models 5. Silius’ Roman Hannibal 6. Out of...

Hannibal. Ancients in Action

Robert Garland  / Bristol Classical Press, 2010

Reviewed by Fred K. Drogula, 

...eventually Africa. Although he emphasizes Hannibal’s activities in Italy when possible, there is often little to say, since Hannibal increasingly became a sideshow in the war as the Romans managed...

Hannibal’s Dynasty: Power and Politics in the Western Mediterranean, 247-183 B.C. Paperback edition

B. D. (B. Dexter) Hoyos  / Routledge, 2005, 2003

Reviewed by Paul Burton, 

...Saguntum (pp. 98-99), for Hannibal’s several months’ delay before setting out for Italy in late summer 218 (pp. 102-105), and why Hannibal did not march on Rome immediately after Trasimene...

Cornelius Nepos, Life of Hannibal: Latin Text, Notes, Maps, Illustrations and Vocabulary. Dickinson College commentaries

Bret Mulligan  / Open Book Publishers, 2015

Reviewed by Rex Stem, 

...of Hannibal offered by any ancient author” (under the “Hannibal” subheading in the Introduction, p. 39 in print), yet offers no explanation for why that might be. The introduction details...

Livy: Hannibal’s war (books 21-30). With an introduction and notes by Dexter Hoyos. Oxford World’s Classics

Livy., John Yardley, B. D. (B. Dexter) Hoyos  / Oxford University Press, 2006

Reviewed by John Jacobs, 

...Hannibal. He correctly translates this word as “the Carthaginians” in, e.g., 21.8.3 and 21.9.1, and as “Hannibal” or “the Carthaginian” (i.e., Hannibal) in, e.g., 21.12.5 and 21.24.5. In 21.8.8, however,...

Hannibal ad portas: Silius Italicus, ‘Punica’ 12,507-752. Einleitung, Übersetzung und Kommentar

Jan Robinson Telg Genannt Kortmann  / Universitätsverlag Winter, 2018

Reviewed by Antony Augoustakis, 

Silius Italicus’ Punica has recently seen a growing number of commentaries, and the present volume by Kortmann is a very good...

Livy on the Hannibalic War

D. S. Levene  / Oxford University Press, 2010

Reviewed by Michael P. Fronda, 

the basis of something that he is clear that they do not know” (335), namely that Hannibal was going to cross the Alps. To be sure, Livy foreshadows Hannibal’s Alpine...

Exemplary Epic: Silius Italicus’ Punica. Oxford Classical Monographs

Ben Tipping  / Oxford University Press, 2010

Reviewed by John Jacobs, 

...the chapter on Hannibal, Tipping begins with a brief survey of the different, and often differing, portrayals of Hannibal in earlier Greek (primarily Polybius) and Latin (primarily Cicero and Livy)...

Levene on Fronda on Levene, Livy on the Hannibalic War

Response by D.S. Levene | Original Review by Michael P. Fronda, 

...Hannibal entering winter quarters, but when he shows him leaving them, and what he represents as happening afterwards. According to Livy, Hannibal spent most of the winter in Capua (23.18.10),...

Scipio Africanus

Alexander Acimovic  / iUniverse, Inc, 2007

Reviewed by John Jacobs, 

...4. E.g., Habib Boularès, Hannibal (Paris, 2000); Giovanni Brizzi, Annibale (Roma, 2000); Karl Christ, Hannibal (Darmstadt, 2003); and, most recently, Pedro Barceló, Hannibal: Stratege und Staatsmann (Stuttgart, 2004). Many earlier...

Between Rome and Carthage: Southern Italy during the Second Punic War

Michael P. Fronda  / Cambridge University Press, 2010

Reviewed by Mark Thatcher, 

...down to the Social War, in an attempt to understand how Rome was eventually able to unify Italy where Hannibal failed. Unlike Hannibal, who tried to unify Italy in only...

Valorizing the Barbarians: Enemy Speeches in Roman Historiography. Ashley and Peter Larkin series in Greek and Roman culture

Eric Adler  / University of Texas Press, 2011

Reviewed by Guillaume Flamerie de Lachapelle, 

...Hannibal et aux Puniques, le portrait des Carthaginois n’est pas toujours péjoratif, et qu’on y trouve même une certaine compréhension. Celle-ci transparaît notamment dans le fait qu’Hannibal, avant le Tessin,...

Mastering the West: Rome and Carthage at War. Ancient warfare and civilization

Dexter Hoyos  / Oxford University Press, 2015

Reviewed by Fred K. Drogula, 

...the inexplicable delay of Hannibal’s brother Hasdrubal in bringing reinforcements from Spain, which could have turned the tide for Hannibal (115, 145, 151, 154, 170, 179, 196, 223). The military...

Brill’s Companion to Silius Italicus

Antony Augoustakis  / Brill, 2009

Reviewed by Michiel van der Keur, 

...heroic model for both Hannibal and Scipio. Unfortunately, he confines his evaluation of Hannibal’s success in emulating Hercules to the first two books; for in later books, Hannibal repeatedly fails...

1997.03.01, The Second Punic War: A Reappraisal. Bulletin of the Institute of Classical Studies Supplement 67

Tim Cornell, N. B. Rankov, Philip A. G. Sabin  / Institute of Classical Studies, School of Advanced Study, University of London, 1996

Reviewed by David Potter, 

...not know what to do with his victory. Lazenby takes issue with this, in his thoughtful essay on Hannibal’s strategy. In his view, Hannibal recognized that the war could only...

A Companion to the Punic Wars. Blackwell companions to the ancient world. Ancient history

Dexter Hoyos  / Wiley-Blackwell, 2011

Reviewed by Dan-el Padilla Peralta, 

...were rather conventional for his time. Richard Miles tries to pin down the core features of the Hannibalic ideological program, concentrating on Hannibal’s strategically minded appropriation of Heracles/Hercules as the...

Ritual and Religion in Flavian Epic

Antony Augoustakis  / Oxford University Press, 2013

Reviewed by Robert Simms, 

...surrounds Hannibal and his forces as well as characterizing connections to gigantomachy; and finally, Hannibal’s seemingly sacrilegious subversion of Roman triumphal sacrifice. Littlewood also comments on the contrastive imagery of...

Die Wohltaten der Götter: König Eumenes II. und die Figuren am großen Fries des Pergamonaltars verrätselt – enträtselt

Barbara Demandt  / Verlag Philipp von Zabern, 2013

Reviewed by Martin Schwemmer, 

...cases: Hannibal, “who had no successor” (p. 98), was slightly less encoded than the others. As referenced above, Hannibal is struck down by Klotho/Nyx and, is, Demandt deduces, fairly easily...

Comedy and the Rise of Rome

Matthew Leigh  / Oxford University Press, 2004

Reviewed by Michael Fontaine, 

...but I think this book would have benefited by discussing some of these allusions.2 In Chapter Two, “Plautus and Hannibal,” L. seeks “to identify a pervasive Hannibalic impact on the...

A Commentary on Silius Italicus’ ‘Punica’ 7

R. Joy Littlewood  / Oxford University Press, 2011

Reviewed by John Jacobs, 

...an illuminating reading of book 7, the narrative of the conflict between Fabius and Hannibal, as well as the conflict between Fabius and his magister equitum, M. Minucius Rufus, during...