- wrote history of Persian wars
- considered father of history
- went out and talked to people
Thucydides
- more of a scholar than Herodotus
- wanted the facts
Livy
- roman historian
- lived during the time of Augustus
- wrote history from Romulus and Remus to present
- book 21 of Livy's history of Rome is the story of Hannibal and the second Punic war
2nd Punic war
(battle of Cannae)
- Hannibal 's father made his pledge to hate the Romans
- Takes his army including war elephants over the Pyrenees and the Alps
- finaly gets to southeast of Rome
- Rome sends 60000 troops to cannae to attack Hannibal
- Roman soldiers out number the Carthaginians
- romans break through and then Hannibal surounds them and send calvelry to the back
- All the romans died and Hannibal is victorious
- largest Roman defeat up to that time
- hannibal fins the battle but he didn't have the fources to seage Rome, the capitol city (piric victory)
(battle of Zama)
- Romans lead by Scipio Africanas
- Romans win a vicory after scaring Carthaginian war elephants
- the elephants ran back into carthaginian
- Hanibal finaly defeated after 16 years of victories against rome
- scipio used hannibal strategies to win
3rd Punic War
- Roman were lead by son of Scippio, Scipio Aemlianus
- takes troops to meet carthaginians at Carthage
- the Romans seage the city and completly destroy it
- Cato the elder ended all his speaches with Carthage must be destroyed
- Scipio has the city covered with salt and all people killed or enslaved
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