Reading ancient Historians like Livy and Polybius is enlightening and fascinating for anyone who wants to get an understanding of how people saw the world in ancient times, but it can be slow going. Livy frequently goes into long discourses about prodigies that were seen at critical times and the religious rites that were undertaken […]
Notable Women of the Roman Republic: Sempronia the Sister of the Gracchi
July 20, 2012 By Leave a Comment
In our last blog in our series Notable Women of the Roman Republic we wrote about Cornelia, the mother of the Gracchi. Cornelia was the daughter of the great Publius Cornelius Scipio Africanus who conquered Carthage at the end of the second Punic war. She was married to Tiberius Sempronius Gracchus and had twelve children […]
Book Review: The Sword of Carthage by Vaughn Heppner
June 6, 2012 By Leave a Comment
The Sword of Carthage The Sword of Carthage, by Vaughn Heppner, tells a tale of the first Punic war through the eyes of Hamilcar Barca, the father of Hannibal. In writing The Death of Carthage, my novel of the second and third Punic wars, I naturally tried to learn all I could […]
The Sack of Carthage by Geoffrey Lehman
June 5, 2012 By Leave a Comment
The Sack of Carthage by Geoffrey Lehmann From book: A Voyage of Lions and Other Poems Used by permission of the poet. Screams, laughter, smoke, rapine at noon Nightmare by day, figures from night we roamed Bloody and light-headed through spectral sunlight, Burning the corpse of Carthage. But then we saw them. Sacking […]
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