Table of Contents

• Illustrations
• Preface
• Hannibal's chronology
• Maps
• Italy and Sicily in Hannibal's time
• The Western Mediterranean in Hannibal's time
• Southern Italy 216-203 BC
• The Eastern Mediterranean around 200 BC
• 1 Introduction: the challenge of Hannibal
• 2 Family and city
• 3 Barcids supreme (241-221)
• 4 Leadership and war (221-216)
• 5 Hannibal, Carthage and the Mediterranean (216-209)
• 6 Decline and defeat (209-202)
• 7 Hannibal in politics (201-195)
• 8 Hannibal in exile (195-183)
• 9 Hannibal: memory and myth
• Bibliography
• Notes
• Index

About the Author

Dexter Hoyos is Professor of Classics and Ancient History in the University of Sydney and author of Unplanned Wars: the Origins of the First and Second Punic Wars (1998) and Hannibal’s Dynasty: Power and Politics in the Western Mediterranean, 247-183 BC (2003).

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