Hannibal: A Hellenistic Life

Modern scholarly biography that situates Hannibal squarely within the Hellenistic Mediterranean world rather than the older Romano-centric frame. MacDonald, who has written extensively on Carthage and the wider Punic world, draws on archaeology and recent scholarship as well as the literary sources, reconstructing Hannibal not only as a general but as a Carthaginian statesman, a member of the Barcid family in its political context, and a figure shaped by the Hellenistic kingdoms whose practices and personnel he interacted with throughout his life. Companion to her broader work on Carthage; particularly strong on the Iberian command, on Hannibal's post-war career as suffete, and on the long exile that ended in Bithynia.