{"product_id":"hannibal-a-hellenistic-life-9780300152043","title":"Hannibal: A Hellenistic Life","description":"\u003cp\u003eIf history is written by the victors  can we really know Hannibal  whose portrait we see through the eyes of his Roman conquerors?  \"Eve MacDonald has produced a real page-turner in this lucid account of Hannibal  the Carthaginian general whose invasion of Italy brought republican Rome almost to her knees. \"Antony Spawforth  author of The Story of Greece and Rome and co-author ofThe Oxford Classical Dictionary  Hannibal lived a life of incredible feats of daring and survival  massive military engagements  and ultimate defeat. A citizen of Carthage and military commander in Punic Spain  he famously marched his war elephants and huge army over the Alps into Romes own heartland to fight the Second Punic War. Yet the Romans were the ultimate victors. They eventually captured and destroyed Carthage  and thus it was they who wrote the legend of Hannibal: a brilliant and worthy enemy whose defeat represented military glory for Rome.  In this groundbreaking biography Eve MacDonald expands the memory of Hannibal beyond his military feats and tactics. She considers him in the wider context of the society and vibrant culture of Carthage which shaped him and his family  employing archaeological findings and documentary sources not only from Rome but also the wider Mediterranean world of the third century B.C. MacDonald also analyzes Hannibals legend over the millennia  exploring how statuary  Jacobean tragedy  opera  nineteenth-century fiction  and other depictions illuminate the character of one of the most fascinating military personalities in all of history.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"My Store","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":45529608716341,"sku":"ByrdShop_0300152043","price":352.2,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0627\/8139\/0901\/files\/9780300152043.jpg?v=1780938823","url":"https:\/\/atxbooks.com\/products\/hannibal-a-hellenistic-life-9780300152043","provider":"ATX Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}