Carthage's Other Wars: Carthaginian Warfare Outside the 'Punic Wars' Against Rome
| Carthage was the western Mediterranean's first superpower, long before Rome, and her military history was powerful, eventful, and chequered even before her 'Punic Wars' against Rome. Although characterized in the surviving sources and modern studies as a predominantly mercantile state, Carthage fought many wars, both aggressive and defensive, before and in between the contests with the Roman parvenus. The Greek states of Sicily, above all Syracuse under its tyrants Dionysius the Great and then Agathocles, were her most resolute opponents, but in North Africa itself, in Sardinia, and later on in Spain she won--and sometimes lost--major wars. This is the first full-length study dedicated to these other wars which furthered Carthage's interests for over half a millennium. The book is based firmly and analytically on the ancient sources, and among many insights is that Carthage, though usually considered a naval power, did more fighting on land than at sea and with more success. | |||
Table of contents : Book Cover Book Title Copyright Contents List of Plates Preface and Acknowledgements Chapter 1 Sources of knowledge 1. Carthaginian remnants 2. Greek and Latin records Chapter 2 Carthage: city and state 1. Foundation and footprint 2. The Carthaginian republic 3. Trade and business 4. Merchants, landowners, commoners and slaves 5. Friends, neighbours and potential foes Chapter 3 Fleets and armies 1. Carthage’s navy 2. The army 3. The defences of Carthage Chapter 4 Early Wars: Malchus to ‘King’ Hamilcar 1. Malchus: fiction or fact? 2. Malchus: victories, revenge and ruin 3. The Magonids: ‘empire’ builders? 4. The expedition of ‘king’ Hamilcar Chapter 5 The Revenge of Hannibal the Magonid 1. The aftermath of Himera 2. A new Sicilian war: the first expedition of Hannibal the Magonid 3. Carthage victorious, 406–05 BC Plate section Chapter 6 Carthage against Dionysius and Syracuse 1. Uneasy peace, 405–398 2. Himilco vs Dionysius 3. Mago vs Dionysius 4. Mago and Himilco against Dionysius 5. Last war with Dionysius Chapter 7 Carthage against Timoleon 1. Carthage and the turmoils of Sicily 2. The arrival of Timoleon 3. Sorting out sources 4. The enigma of Mago 5. The battle at the Crimisus 6. Gisco and peace Chapter 8 Carthage against Agathocles 1. The advent of Agathocles 2. Agathocles frustrating Carthage 3. Carthage at war with Agathocles 4. Africa invaded 5. The destruction of Hamilcar 6. The destruction of Ophellas and Bomilcar 7. Agathocles fails in Africa, wins in Sicily 8. The end of the war Chapter 9 The Sicilian stalemate: Pyrrhus and Hiero 1. The woes of post-Agathoclean Sicily 2. The war with Pyrrhus 3. Hiero of Syracuse Chapter 10 Carthage at War in Africa and Spain 1. Libya: subjects and rebels 2. The Truceless War: origins and outbreak 3. Horrors of the Truceless War 4. Carthage’s victory 5. Barcid Carthage’s Spanish empire Conclusion Abbreviations and Reading List Endnotes Index Back Cover |
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