Hannibal's odyssey : the environmental background to the alpine invasion of Italia / William Mahaney.
Hannibal's invasion of Italia in 218 BC is depicted from the standpoint of environmental evidence elicited from ancient texts, and analyzed against present-day Earth Science databases. The conclusion is that the Punic Army followed the southern route over the Alps; a proposal first made by Sir...
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Full Text (via ProQuest) |
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| Format: | eBook |
| Language: | English |
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Piscataway, New Jersey :
Gorgias Press,
2013.
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| Series: | Gorgias studies in classical and late antiquity ;
11. |
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| Summary: | Hannibal's invasion of Italia in 218 BC is depicted from the standpoint of environmental evidence elicited from ancient texts, and analyzed against present-day Earth Science databases. The conclusion is that the Punic Army followed the southern route over the Alps; a proposal first made by Sir Gavin de Beer in the 1960's. |
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| Physical Description: | 1 online resource (239 pages) : illustrations, maps. |
| Bibliography: | Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| ISBN: | 9781463202989 1463202989 |
| Source of Description, Etc. Note: | Source of description: Online resource; title from PDF title page (ebrary, viewed May 22, 2014) |