Friday, September 11, 2015

Hannibal - A Hellenistic Life by Eve MacDonald (nonfiction 2015)

Fairly successful attempt at understanding Hannibal as a Carthaginian, a Hellenistic general who lived only 100 years after Alexander.  Our view of him is so largely shaped by the Romans, his mortal enemies, and the author tries to sidestep or augment that as much as possible with a more nuanced portrait.

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