Unplanned Wars: The Origins of the First and Second Punic Wars

Unplanned Wars: The Origins of the First and Second Punic Wars

by B. Dexter Hoyos
Unplanned Wars: The Origins of the First and Second Punic Wars

Unplanned Wars: The Origins of the First and Second Punic Wars

by B. Dexter Hoyos

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ISBN-13: 9783110155648
Publisher: De Gruyter
Publication date: 10/31/1997
Series: Untersuchungen zur antiken Literatur und Geschichte , #50
Edition description: Reprint 2012
Pages: 340
Product dimensions: 6.10(w) x 9.06(h) x (d)
Age Range: 18 Years

Table of Contents

Abbreviationsxiii
Mapsxv
Prologue1
I.Before 2645
1.The Romans and the Carthaginians5
2.Two treaties, and one fake7
3.Pyrrhus' war11
II.Preparations for War?17
1.Post-Pyrrhic consolidations17
2.Plans for a war?19
3.The Romans and Sicily28
III.The Mamertine Appeal33
1.Difficulties with dates33
2.The ungrateful Mamertines40
IV.Debating the Appeal47
1.The Mamertines' deditio47
2.The Romans' debates51
3.The Roman war-aims in 26453
4.Course of the debates57
5.Time-span of the debates64
V.The Punic-Syracusan Alliance67
1.Messana vacated67
2.Alliance of old foes73
VI.An Unwanted War82
1.Appius at the straits: discrepant sources82
2.Appius' offer of talks86
3.The sea-fight and aftermath88
4.Crossing to Messana91
5.Appius in battle93
VII.Escalation100
1.Ap. Claudius against Syracuse100
2.Valerius and Otacilius against Syracuse104
3.Valerius in the west108
VIII.From Enmity to Goodwill116
1.Wartime talks116
2.The peace of Lutatius118
3.A season of goodwill123
4.Family politics in the 230s and 220s?127
IX.The Rape of Sardinia132
1.How it was done132
2.Why it was done140
X.Imaginary Confrontations in the 230s144
1.Fictional clashes144
2.Envoys to Hamilcar?147
XI.Hasdrubal's Accord150
1.The Barcid ascendancy150
2.The accord with Hasdrubal: date154
3.The accord: arguments about content158
4.The aim of the accord: competing views166
XII.Saguntum174
1.Friendship or alliance?175
2.The Saguntine connexion: date178
3.Saguntines in crisis184
4.The Saguntines' neighbours187
5.Saguntines request arbitration191
6.The Romans arbitrate193
XIII.Hannibal and the Ambassadors196
1.The embassy of 220: aims196
2.Disputed datings202
3.The Roman demarche204
4.The ambassadors at Carthage212
XIV.Saguntum Besieged219
1.The Saguntines on their own219
2.The Romans in debate226
XV.War to Save Face233
1.The ultimatum233
2.Could the embassy declare war?240
3.Roman envoys to Punic senate244
4.Punic senate to Roman envoys248
5.War declared254
6.From diplomacy to warfare, 218 B.C.255
XVI.Conclusions260
1.A Roman expansionist war?260
2.Punic plans and prospects265
3.Punic wars and Roman imperialism270
4.Avoidable wars?274
XVII.The Major Sources280
1.Lost accounts280
2.Surviving sources282
3.Bias and inaccuracies: the problem of Polybius284
4.Problems with the later sources291
Bibliography297
Index I.Names and Topics315
Index II.Passages Cited321
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