TY  - BOOK
AU  - Mahaney,William
TI  - Hannibal's Odyssey: The Environmental Background to the Alpine Invasion of Italia 
T2  - Gorgias Studies in Classical and Late Antiquity
SN  - 9781593339517
U1  - 930 
PY  - 2013///]
CY  - Piscataway, NJ : 
PB  - Gorgias Press, 
KW  - HISTORY / Ancient / Rome
KW  - bisacsh
N1  - 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; restricted access
N2  - 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
UR  - https://doi.org/10.31826/9781463215958
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