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The Carthaginians
Dexter Hoyos
Composition
2010 CE
Language: english
Hoyos's broader treatment of Carthaginian civilization, its institutions, religion, economy, society, and military culture, written for the Routledge "Peoples of the Ancient World" series and complementing his earlier biographical work on Hannibal. Where Hoyos's 2003 Hannibal is a military and biographical study, The Carthaginians steps back to reconstruct the city and society that produced him. Particularly useful on the suffeteship and the Carthaginian assemblies, on the relationship between the Barcid family and Carthaginian politics, and on the structure of Carthage's commercial and territorial empire. A natural companion to MacDonald 2015 and Miles 2010 in the trio of accessible modern syntheses.
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Cannae transformed Roman strategic and tactical thinking in the long run, driving the return to Fabian avoidance of decisive engagement, the systematic destruction of the Roman senatorial-tribunate command pool, and the eventual Scipionic reforms that produced the more flexible manipular practice on display at Zama.