Mastering the West: Rome and Carthage at War

by Dexter Hoyos

Book Overview

To say the Punic Wars (264-146 BC) were a turning point in world history is a vast understatement. This bloody and protracted conflict pitted two flourishing Mediterranean powers against one another, leaving one an unrivalled giant and the other a literal pile of ash. To later observers, a collision between these civilizations seemed inevitable and yet to the Romans and Carthaginians at the time hostilities first erupted seemingly out of nowhere,...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0199860106
• ISBN13: 9780199860104
• Release Date: February 2015
• Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
• Length: 360 Pages
• Weight: 1.45 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.1" x 9.4" x 6.4"