CLASS 2680 Lecture Notes - Lecture 8: Hellenistic-Era Warships, Second Punic War, Latin League
19 Apr 2018
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Punic wars = most destructive series of wars in the ancient world. Lecture 8 - first punic war: rome won, destruction of carthage. Carthage delivered the most humiliating defeats to rome in 216 bc. Carthaginians spoke phoenician and were sometimes referred to as the phoenicians. Race did not exist as we understand it in the ancient world: our idea of race appeared in the 1200s for the 1st time, carthaginians were dark-skinned. Polybius: greek living in rome in the 100s bce: wrote the best surviving account of the punic wars. Livy: roman historian who wrote a book from the founding of rome by romulus all the way through the. The military camp of rome was very systematic. In the 4th century bce, rome gave its conscripts pay. Rome was willing to use foreign military technology: used the hoplite phalanx, useful on the somewhat flat ground of latium. If 1 line failed, the next line could step in.
