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  • Carthage's Other Wars

    Carthaginian Warfare Outside the 'Punic Wars' Against Rome

    by Dexter Hoyos ...
    "A very good read . . . and a reminder that the Romans were hardly the only imperialist warmongers of the ancient world." — StrategyPageCarthage was the western Mediterranean's first superpower, long before Rome, and her military history was powerful, eventful, and checkered even before her "Punic Wars" against Rome. Although characterized in the surviving sources and modern studies as a ... Read more

    $17.99 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • The Carthaginians

    by Dexter Hoyos ...
    Series series Peoples of the Ancient World
    The Carthaginians reveals the complex culture, society and achievements of a famous, yet misunderstood, ancient people. Beginning as Phoenician settlers in North Africa, the Carthaginians then broadened their civilization with influences from neighbouring North African peoples, Egypt, and the Greek world. Their own cultural influence in turn spread across the Western Mediterranean as they imposed ... Read more

    $73.99 CAD

  • Mastering the West

    Rome and Carthage at War

    by Dexter Hoyos ...
    Series series Ancient Warfare and Civilization
    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 ... Read more

    $20.99 CAD

  • Scipio Africanus

    The First Imperator

    by Dexter Hoyos ...
    Scipio Africanus (235–183 BC) commanded his first army at the age of 25, led a daring invasion in Africa to personally defeat Hannibal and secured Rome’s dominance over the Mediterranean. In ten years of command he never lost a battle, employing bold strategies to triumph over six enemy generals. Charismatic, ruthless and self-confident almost to the point of arrogance, Scipio was the first Roman ... Read more

    $29.99 CAD

  • Mastering the West

    Rome and Carthage at War

    by Dexter Hoyos ...
    Series series Ancient Warfare and Civilization
    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 ... Read more

    $20.99 CAD

  • Carthage

    A Biography

    by Dexter Hoyos ...
    Series series Cities of the Ancient World
    Carthage tells the life story of the city, both as one of the Mediterranean’s great seafaring powers before 146 BC, and after its refounding in the first century BC. It provides a comprehensive history of the city and its unique culture, and offers students an insight into Rome’s greatest enemy.Hoyos explores the history of Carthage from its foundation, traditionally claimed to have been by ... Read more

    $94.99 CAD

  • Hannibal's Dynasty

    Power and Politics in the Western Mediterranean, 247-183 BC

    by Dexter Hoyos ...
    Accessible and enlightening, Hannibal's Dynasty provides the full story of Carthage's achievement, going beyond the usual focus on Hannibal and military matters alone to look at a wide range of political and diplomatic issues too.Dexter Hoyos shows how the aristocratic Barcid family won dominance in the free republic of Carthage, and how they exploited family connections to lead Carthage to ... Read more

    $85.99 CAD

  • Rome Victorious

    The Irresistible Rise of the Roman Empire

    by Prof Dexter Hoyos ...
    Rome – Urbs Roma: city of patricians and plebeians, emperors and gladiators, slaves and concubines – was the epicentre of a far-flung imperium whose cultural legacy is incalculable. How a tiny settlement, founded by desperate adventurers beside the banks of the River Tiber, came to rule vast tracts of territory across the face of the known world is one of the more improbable stories of antiquity. ... Read more

    $23.99 CAD

  • Hannibal's War

    Books 21-30

    by Livy ...
    Translated by J.C. Yardley ...
    Series series Oxford World's Classics
    'You know how to win a battle, Hannibal; you do not know how to use the victory!' Livy's great history of Rome contains, in Books 21 to 30, the definitive ancient account of Hannibal's invasion of Italy in 218 BC, and the war he fought with the Romans over the following sixteen years. Livy describes the bloody siege of the Spanish city of Saguntum, Rome's ally, which sparked the war, and the ... Read more

    $9.99 CAD

  • A Companion to the Punic Wars

    Edited by Dexter Hoyos ...
    Series series Wiley Companions to the Ancient World
    A Companion to the Punic Wars offers a comprehensive new survey of the three wars fought between Rome and Carthage between 264 and 146 BC.Offers a broad survey of the Punic Wars from a variety of perspectivesFeatures contributions from an outstanding cast of international scholars with unrivalled expertiseIncludes chapters on military and naval techniques, strategies, logistics, and Hannibal as a ... Read more

    $55.99 CAD

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  • Rome's Great Eastern War

    Lucullus, Pompey and the Conquest of the East, 74–62 BC

    by Gareth C. Sampson ...
    This military history of Ancient Rome analyses the empire's revitalized push against rising enemies to the East.In the century since Rome's defeat of the Seleucid Empire in the 180s BC, the East was dominated by the rise of new empires: Parthia, Armenia, and Pontus, each vying to recreate the glories of the Persian Empire. By the 80s BC, the Pontic Empire of Mithridates had grown so bold that it ... Read more

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  • The Reign of Emperor Gallienus

    The Apogee of Roman Cavalry

    by Ilkka Syvänne ...
    "An unusual history of an unusual soldier of Rome who rose to Emperor . . . an engaging history of a fascinating subject—Very Highly Recommended." — FiretrenchThis is the only fully illustrated military life of the Emperor Publius Licinius Egnatius Gallienus (253-268). Considered the most blatantly military man of all of the soldier emperors of the third century, Gallienus is the emperor in Harry ... Read more

    $17.99 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus