The first battle that the Roman army fought in what is now Catalonia took place in 218 BC in the area around the Iberian town ...

The Phoenician culture emerged in the Bronze Age city-states of the Levant, developing prominent innovations such as the ...

the army of the Punic Wars was different from that of Pompey and Caesar and the army of the Antonines was different yet again, and that this process continued. Legions in Crisis is a good read for ...

Tomas van Houtryve The First Punic War (264-241 B.C.) was fought over ... “His men slaughtered 50,000 Roman soldiers at the Battle of Cannae in 216 B.C.,” says Allen, “but they never took ...

A 2,000-year-old battering ram sunk during the First Punic ... Roman Republic in the third and second centuries BCE over dominance of the western Mediterranean, and three long periods of war ...

100 B.C.). The book opens with an introductory paper by the authors on the history and historiography of writing about Roman military ... in the Second Punic War, the Social War (a very good essay), a ...

At the bottom of the Mediterranean Sea, an ancient Roman battering ram was found ... B.C. The skirmish was the last battle of the First Punic War between the two cities, the initial conflict ...