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A Critical History of Early Rome: From Prehistory to the First Punic War

Aestimatio, 2015
Gary Forsythe (book author), Michael P. Fronda (review author)   +1 more
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First Report on the Benthic Invertebrate Community Associated With a Bronze Naval Ram From the First Punic War: A Proxy of Marine Biodiversity

Frontiers in Marine Science, 2021
Historical traces of organisms on the seafloor, such as shells and tubes, constitute the ecological memory of ancient benthic assemblages and serve as an important resource for understanding the assembly of modern communities.
Maria Flavia Gravina, Maria Flavia Gravina, Edoardo Casoli, Luigia Donnarumma, Luigia Donnarumma, Jacopo Giampaoletti, Federica Antonelli, Federica Antonelli, Carlotta Sacco Perasso, Sandra Ricci   +9 more
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Roman Control of Foreign Ritual Texts during the War with Hannibal / Rimska kontrola stranih obrednih spisa u vrijeme rata s Hanibalom

Miscellanea Hadriatica et Mediterranea, 2022
EN: One of the most turbulent periods in Roman history is certainly the period of the Second Punic War. The years 218 – 215 BC were especially turbulent for the Roman religion.
Dijana Beljan
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The Legions of Cannae. The First Professional Army of the Roman Republic

Nuova Antologia Militare, 2021
This article traces the evolution of the well-known Legiones Cannenses from a citizen army into a professional force, possibly the first in the history of the Roman army. I shall focus on three main aspects of this transformation.
Samuele Rocca
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La Sicile dans la stratégie carthaginoise durant la guerre d’Hannibal

Pallas, 2009
Sicily is traditionally considered as a major stake of the first Punic war and an area of slight importance in the second one. That judgement needs to be reconsidered in the light of the analysis which L.
Sandrine Crouzet
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Les raisons du plus fort : La reconstruction par l’historiographie antique des liens entre la guerre de Pyrrhus et la première guerre punique

Pallas, 2009
A group of scholars in Antiquity, mainly Greek-speaking, brought together Pyrrhos’s war and the first Punic war. In so far as both wars could be described as conflicts engaged in Italy’s defence and in so far as the war waged by Pyrrhos had forged the ...
Clara Berrendonner
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Ethics, aesthetics and history in Dionysius of Halicarnassus: imitation and construction of tradition

Revista de Filosofia, 2018
The work of Dionysius of Halicarnassus has been traditionally divided into two parts: first, treaties of rhetoric and, secondly, Roman Antiquities, the history of Rome from its origins to the First Punic War.
Iker Martínez Fernández
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Pyrrhos en Italie : la construction de l’image du premier ennemi venu de l’Orient grec

Pallas, 2009
The article sets into prominence the development of Rome’s diplomatic abilities during the war againt Pyrrhos. Confronted with the propaganda and diplomatic language of the king of Epirus, which reflected the customs particular to the Hellenistic ...
Maria Teresa Schettino
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Coût humain des guerres et mémoire romaine des désastres (deuxième guerre punique - fin du ier s. apr. J.-C.)

Pallas, 2019
According to ancient authors, casualties of war play a significant part in the memory of the military disasters. However, the historiography has hardly studied the trauma of slaughters suffered by the Romans in the perspective of collective memory.
Sophie Hulot
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The Fleets of the First Punic War [PDF]

The Journal of Hellenic Studies, 1907
According to Polybius, there took part in the battle of Ecnomus 680 quinqueremes and 290,000 men, i.e. crews 204,000 and troops 86,000; while in the next year, at the battle of the Hermaean promontory, 550 quinqueremes were engaged. The only figures comparable to these in Roman history, manifest absurdities apart, are those given by Appian for the ...
openaire   +2 more sources