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Strategy and Cost: Carthaginian Naval Strategy in the First Punic War Reappraised
Historia, 2020This article reassesses the quality and character of Carthaginian strategy during the First Punic War. It uses the ship count figures contained in Polybius’ account, combined with comparative evidence from the Athenian navy to estimate the relative cost of naval operations for both Carthage and Rome.
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The Beginning of the First Punic War and the Concept of Italia
2012The beginning of the first Punic War was the centre of a historiographic debate, mainly in relation to the legitimacy of Roman intervention in Messina. In the end Romans decided to send help to the Mamertines. Romans were aware of being in an awkward position; therefore tried to justify their intervention as an example of a bellum iustum. If we compare
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A Forgotten Roman Historian: L. Arruntius and the ‘True’ Causes of the First Punic War
Antichthon, 1989Ancient historians offered various explanations for the war that broke out in 264 B.C. For Polybius a century later it was the Roman’s first step outside Italy in a drive to world hegemony; also a properly defensive counter to a looming Carthaginian threat to Italy.
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The First Punic Punic War: A Military History
Phoenix, 1997M. James Moscovich +4 more
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Gary Forsythe: A Critical History of Early Rome. From Prehistory to the First Punic War
Gnomon, 2007Gary Forsythe: A Critical History of Early Rome. From Prehistory to the First Punic War. Berkeley/Los Angeles/London: California UP 2005. XVI, 400 S. 10 Abb. 10 Ktn.
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From Debris Field to 1st Punic War Battle Map: Site Formation in the Egadi Battle Zone
International Journal of Nautical Archaeology, 2021William M Murray
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Carthage's military installations of the First Punic War on Monte Pellegrino (Palermo)
2019The excavation in the park of Villa Belmonte (Monte Pellegrino, Palermo) has brought to light several warehouses, made with a “pseudo-frame” technique, probably with a straw roof, used for the storage of foodstuffs, given the large quantity of Punic-type amphorae found in situ, datable to around the middle of the third century BC.
Battaglia, Giuseppina +5 more
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Manpower and food supply during the First and Second Punic Wars
2011Content: mobilization - manpower and demography - ancient statistics - forces and casualties - logistics - tactics and strategy - food supply and strategy in the Second Punic ...
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