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A source-book of ancient history - The Search For Mecca

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^8S <strong>The</strong> First and Second Punic Wars<br />

STUDIES<br />

1. Give Appian's account <strong>of</strong> Regulus and Xanthippus. Compare<br />

the account given in Rome, loo; Ancient World, 373 f (from Polybius).<br />

What is Polybius' estimate <strong>of</strong> the value <strong>of</strong> <strong>history</strong> as illustrated by<br />

the fate <strong>of</strong> these two generals? From the maps {Rome, i, 95; Ancient<br />

World, 313, 371) describe the location <strong>of</strong> Sicily, Ecnomus, Messene,<br />

Mount Ercte, Panormus, Mount Eryx, Lilybaeum, Drepana, the<br />

^gatian Islands, Carthaginian Libya, and Spain (Iberia).<br />

2. Write a biography <strong>of</strong> Hamilcar Barca, including a description<br />

<strong>of</strong> his character.<br />

3. Write a biography <strong>of</strong> Hannibal, and describe his character.<br />

Whose character in the Second Punic War was the more admirable,<br />

that <strong>of</strong> Hannibal or that <strong>of</strong> the Romans? Would the success <strong>of</strong> Hannibal<br />

have benefited the world?

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