A treatise on Hannibal's passage of the Alps in which his route is traced over the Little Mont Cenis
The controversy over the route taken by Hannibal, the Carthaginian army and his famous elephants in their crossing of the Alps to attack Rome in 218 BCE began within fifty years of the event and has continued for many centuries. A particular scholarly dispute emerged in the 1850s between Robert Elli...
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| Formato: | Libro electrónico |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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Cambridge :
Cambridge University Press
2014.
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| Colección: | CUP ebooks.
Cambridge library collection. Classics. |
| Acceso en línea: | Conectar con la versión electrónica |
| Ver en Universidad de Navarra: | https://innopac.unav.es/record=b41966120*spi |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- Preface
- 1. Introduction
- 2. Polybius' narrative of Hannibal's march
- 3. Discussion of the narrative of Polybius
- 4. Discussion of the narrative of Polybius (cont.)
- 5. Discussion of Polybius' narrative of the events which took place at the summit of the pass
- 6. Improbability of Hannibal's having crossed the Alps by the Great or Little St Bernard
- 7. The route of the Mont Cenis
- 8. The route of the Mont Cenis (cont.)
- 9. Livy's narrative of Hannibal's passage of the Alps
- 10. Examination of objections brought against the Mont Cenis
- 11. Antiquity of the pass of the Mont Cenis
- Appendix.
