Hannibal's War: Books Twenty-One to Thirty
by:
J.C. Yardley (author)
Livy (author)
Dexter Hoyos (author)
Format: paperback
ISBN:
9780192831590 (0192831593)
Publish date: February 16th 2006
Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
Pages no: 740
Edition language: English
Category:
Classics,
Non Fiction,
History,
Academic,
School,
Reference,
Literature,
War,
Military,
Roman,
Military History,
Ancient
This is the fifth book by an ancient historian that I have read. Livy doesn't have the story telling ability of Herodotus, the commitment to historical insight that Tacitus and Thucyides had, nor the gift for gossip of Suetonius. The book is quite long and bogs down a lot. Having said that, some ...