By Andrea Salimbeti
ISBN-10: 1782007784
ISBN-13: 9781782007784
Carthage turned Rome's maximum and so much mythical enemy below the generalship of Hannibal in battles like Cannae. throughout the Punic Wars, Carthage's elite mercenary-professional military was once finally defeated by way of Roman persistence and Scipio's genius.
Carthage, the port-city in Tunisia first settled through Phoenicians from Tyre, grew to increase a aggressive maritime buying and selling empire everywhere in the Western Mediterranean and past, more and more defended via the simplest military of the interval. within the sixth century BC this got here into disagreement with Greek colonists in Sicily, beginning significant wars that lasted during the fifth and 4th centuries, and concerned a lot interplay with diversified Greek forces. through the third century Carthage first clashed with Roman armies, and during 3 wars that raged over Spain, Sicily and Italy the Romans suffered the best defeats of their early heritage (e.g. Lake Trasimene and Cannae, 217 and 216 BC) by the hands of Hamilcar, Hannibal and Hasdrubal Barca, top multinational armies of North Africans and Europeans.
It used to be 202 BC sooner than Hannibal was once decisively defeated through Scipio Africanus at Zama, and 146 BC ahead of Carthage itself used to be ultimately captured and destroyed. The victors attempted to wipe the reminiscence of Carthage out of the historic list, and whereas Hannibal himself has attracted interested examine, little paintings has been performed on attempting to clarify the nature and reconstruct the looks of Carthaginian armies. The authors of this examine current a cautious synthesis of all to be had literary, archaeological and iconographic facts, within the newest try and accomplish that. Their findings are dramatized in a portfolio of specific and lively colour plates by way of Giuseppe Rava.
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The first reliable written information comes from the historian Justin, who describes a military expedition to the island led by the general Mazheus in the mid-6th century BC following his successful campaigning in Sicily. In Sardinia, however, Mazheus was defeated and lost most of his army; wideranging studies of parallel events (such as the exploits of Cyrus in Persia) allow historians to fix the chronology of the expedition to between 545 and 535 BC. In these years the Persians had completed the conquest of the Lydian kingdom of Sardis, original homeland of the Sardinians.
Javelins and spears were the main cavalry weapons, and are often mentioned in the hands of commanders (SI, I, 305, Hannibal fighting with a jaculum at Saguntum; also II, 400, Hannibal with sword and spear). Javelins and also bows were used by Punic aristocrats for hunting (SI, I, 394); but one of the pieces of evidence for a ‘Westernization’ of the Carthaginian army was the relative lack of importance of archers, in contrast to their essential role in the Assyrian and Persian armies. Nevertheless, some arrowheads have been found in Punic tombs of the 7th and 6th centuries, showing an interesting barbed shape.
A military penetration is clearly attested from the excavations at Monte Sirai. The first reliable written information comes from the historian Justin, who describes a military expedition to the island led by the general Mazheus in the mid-6th century BC following his successful campaigning in Sicily. In Sardinia, however, Mazheus was defeated and lost most of his army; wideranging studies of parallel events (such as the exploits of Cyrus in Persia) allow historians to fix the chronology of the expedition to between 545 and 535 BC.
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