Hannibal

Reading notes

• The History of Rome, Book 9 §19 Hannibal

  The Carthaginian commander, cited by Livy for how a foreign war wastes an invader's army.

• The History of Rome, Book 21 §1 Hannibal

  The Carthaginian general (247-183 BC), son of Hamilcar Barca, who led Carthage in the Second Punic War and famously crossed the Alps to invade Italy.

• The History of Rome, Book 22 §1 Hannibal

  The Carthaginian general (247-183 BC), son of Hamilcar, who invaded Italy in the Second Punic War.

• The History of Rome, Book 23 §1 Hannibal

  The Carthaginian general (247–183 BC), son of Hamilcar, who invaded Italy in the Second Punic War; fresh from Cannae as Book 23 opens.

• The History of Rome, Book 24 §1 Hannibal's friendship

  The Carthaginian general (247–183 BC), son of Hamilcar Barca, who invaded Italy in the Second Punic War; his shadow governs the Italian and Sicilian war of Book 24.

• The History of Rome, Book 25 §1 Hannibal

  Carthaginian commander-in-chief in Italy; in this book he seizes Tarentum but cannot take its citadel, and loses ground around Capua.

• The History of Rome, Book 26 §3 Hannibal

  The Carthaginian commander-in-chief in Italy; in this book he fails to relieve Capua and makes his celebrated march on Rome.

• The History of Rome, Book 27 §1 Hannibal

  Hannibal Barca, the Carthaginian commander in Italy throughout the war.

• The History of Rome, Book 28 §9 Hannibal

  Hannibal, the Carthaginian commander still holding out in the Bruttian corner of Italy; the whole African debate turns on whether to draw him home.

• The History of Rome, Book 29 §6 Hannibal

  Hannibal Barca, the Carthaginian commander, who tries and fails to relieve Locri.

• The History of Rome, Book 30 §1 Hannibal

  Hannibal Barca, the Carthaginian commander, in his last year in Italy and then recalled to defend Africa; defeated at Zama.

• The History of Rome, Book 31 §2 Hannibal

  Hannibal Barca, the Carthaginian commander, lately defeated, to whom Philip had sent aid.

• The History of Rome, Book 32 §4 Hannibal

  The Carthaginian general, lately defeated; some of his veterans now served Philip.

• The History of Rome, Book 33 §47 Hannibal

  The Carthaginian general, now suffete; his reforms at Carthage and flight to Antiochus close the book.

• The History of Rome, Book 34 §1 Hannibal

  The Carthaginian general of the Second Punic war, here recalled as the threat under which the Oppian law was passed.

• The History of Rome, Book 35 §10 Hannibal

  The great Carthaginian general, now an exile at the court of Antiochus.

• The History of Rome, Book 36 §5 Hannibal

  The exiled Carthaginian general, now Antiochus's counselor, who urged carrying the war to Italy.

• The History of Rome, Book 37 §2 Hannibal

  The Carthaginian general, now an exile at the court of Antiochus.

• The History of Rome, Book 38 §26 Hannibal

  The Carthaginian general, then a refugee at Antiochus's court; his surrender was stipulated, though he had already fled.

• The History of Rome, Book 39 §51 Hannibal

  The great Carthaginian general of the Second Punic War, now an exile at the court of Prusias.

• The History of Rome, Book 42 §3 Hannibal

  The Carthaginian general (247–183 BC) who ravaged Italy in the Second Punic War; cited as an enemy who spared the temple.