The War with Hannibal

Nov 7, 2024 4:59 AM

Author:Livy,Betty Radice

In The War with Hannibal, Livy (59 BC-AD 17) chronicles the events of the Second Punic War between Rome and Carthage, until the Battle of Zama in 202 BC. He vividly recreates the immense armies of Hannibal, complete with elephants, crossing the Alps; the panic as they approached the gates of Rome; and the decimation of the Roman army at the Battle of Lake Trasimene. Yet it is also the clash of personalities that fascinates Livy, from great debates in the Senate to the historic meeting between Scipio and Hannibal before the decisive battle. Livy never hesitates to introduce both intense drama and moral lessons into his work, and here he brings a turbulent episode in history powerfully to life.

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Roe is an exceptionally shrewd critic of Romanticism - uncannily alert... everything he says is well-turned and reliably clever

—— Andrew Motion , Guardian

Roe provides as complete a portrait as we are likely to get of Hunt’s first 37 years

—— Nicholas Shakespeare , Daily Telegraph

Roe offers a meticulous and thorough account of Hunt’s significance in the literary culture of the Regency era

—— Sunday Telegraph

Roe is a seasoned Romantic scholar who offers an impassioned account of Hunt's 'first life'

—— D J Taylor , Sunday Times

Roe's biography is an absorbing account of English intellectual culture in the early 19th century

—— Evening Standard

Excellent...intriguing reading...Surely [Leigh Hunt] should be back in print for us to judge him now

—— Daily Mail

Roe brings to his work decades of research on the period...[his] volume is free of imprecision and well-informed

—— Independent

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