Essays on Punic Wars

The Punic War and the Expansion of Rome Like most nations in both the present and in the past, there is a country or empire that always seems to be at war with each other. In the case of the Roman Republic, that empire turns...

The Punic Wars (264-146 BCE) marked the beginning of Rome as a major political power. These three wars took place as a battle between the powerful Phoenician city-state Carthage, and the “dominant power of the Italian peninsula” Rome (Punic 2015). Before the Punic Wars began,...

Resources and Capabilities in the Peloponnesian and Punic wars The Peloponnesian War, by Donald Kagan, pieces together the work of Thucydides, describing the conflict of Athens, a democratic society where the majority made choices to progress the city, and Sparta, a minimalistic city with a...