Once home to Cornelius Scipio Africanus, a famed Roman general who defeated Hannibal, the former port city is now an ... around 27 B.C.E. Within the next few centuries, the Roman Empire reached peak ...

O’Connell observes that the long-held tradition of a Roman “war party” and a “peace party ... arguing convincingly that there might not have been a war but for Hannibal and his supporters. O’Connell ...