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Hannibal's Odyssey : The Environmental Background to the Alpine Invasion of Italia / William Mahaney.

By: Material type: TextTextSeries: Gorgias Studies in Classical and Late AntiquityPublisher: Piscataway, NJ : Gorgias Press, [2013]Copyright date: ©2013Description: 1 online resource (238 p.)Content type:
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  • 9781593339517
  • 9781463215958
Subject(s): DDC classification:
  • 930
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  • online - DeGruyter
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Contents:
Frontmatter -- TABLE OF CONTENTS -- FOREWORD -- PROLOGUE -- ACKNOWLEDGMENTS -- 1. Introduction -- 2. OVERVIEW OF THE PUNIC INVASION -- 3. ONSET OF THE SECOND PUNIC WAR -- 4. CAMPAIGN STRATEGY -- 5. COL DU PERTHUS–THE FIRST TEST -- 6. VOLCAE–FIRST ROADBLOCK -- 7. THE “ISLAND”–NECESSARY ALLIANCE -- 8. COL DE GRÎMONE: SECOND TEST -- 9. TEST OF APPROACH ROUTES AND COL POSSIBILITIES -- 10. COMBE DE QUEYRAS -- 11. CHATEAU-QUEYRAS–UPPER GUIL RIVER -- 12. COL DE LA TRAVERSETTE–ULTIMATE TEST -- 13. UPPER PO RIVER -- 14. GEOLOGICAL CONSIDERATIONS -- 15. MILITARY CONSIDERATIONS -- 16. CONCLUSIONS -- GLOSSARY -- MAJOR PLAYERS IN THE SECOND PUNIC WAR AND ITS AFTERMATH -- REFERENCES CITED -- INDEX
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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Frontmatter -- TABLE OF CONTENTS -- FOREWORD -- PROLOGUE -- ACKNOWLEDGMENTS -- 1. Introduction -- 2. OVERVIEW OF THE PUNIC INVASION -- 3. ONSET OF THE SECOND PUNIC WAR -- 4. CAMPAIGN STRATEGY -- 5. COL DU PERTHUS–THE FIRST TEST -- 6. VOLCAE–FIRST ROADBLOCK -- 7. THE “ISLAND”–NECESSARY ALLIANCE -- 8. COL DE GRÎMONE: SECOND TEST -- 9. TEST OF APPROACH ROUTES AND COL POSSIBILITIES -- 10. COMBE DE QUEYRAS -- 11. CHATEAU-QUEYRAS–UPPER GUIL RIVER -- 12. COL DE LA TRAVERSETTE–ULTIMATE TEST -- 13. UPPER PO RIVER -- 14. GEOLOGICAL CONSIDERATIONS -- 15. MILITARY CONSIDERATIONS -- 16. CONCLUSIONS -- GLOSSARY -- MAJOR PLAYERS IN THE SECOND PUNIC WAR AND ITS AFTERMATH -- REFERENCES CITED -- INDEX

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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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In English.

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