Essays on Punic Wars

Many conversations within the idea of alternative history range from the insane to a possible result if the variables fell in the exact time and place. Used as a source of entertainment in literature, games, and moving pictures, certain topics will get the treatment but...

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 out to be the Carthaginians. These wars became...

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,...

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 mixed government and an emphasis on military, in the...