At the time, Rome and Carthage were moving towards the outbreak of the second of the three so-called Punic wars (264-241 BC, 218-201 BC, and 149-146 BC) through which their conflict over the ...

Let us set the stage. Before the outbreak of the second Punic war in 218 BC (the one with Hannibal and the passage of the Alps with elephants!), the Roman Republic controlled perhaps three ...

As its name suggests, the equestrian class was originally composed of the Roman cavalry. In 218 BC, equestrians took on more commercial roles when Lex Claudia prevented Senators from becoming ...

In 22 BC, the Roman mob that threatened to burn the senate ... after the Carthaginian general Hannibal invaded Italy in 218 and that it remained robust throughout the incredible territorial ...

Microbiologists have recently released results that may have answered one of ancient history's greatest enigmas: Where did Hannibal cross the Alps? Microbiologists based in the Institute for ...

The Oscar-winning actor will play the famed military leader who posed the greatest threat to the Roman Republic. In 218 BC during The Second Punic War, Hannibal led troops atop elephants over the ...