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Author(s): B. Dexter Hoyos
Series: Untersuchungen zur antiken Literatur und Geschichte, 50
Publisher: De Gruyter
Year: 1997
Language: English
Pages: 343
City: Berlin
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Maps
Prologue
I. Before
1. The Romans and the Carthaginians
2. Two treaties, and one fake
3. Pyrrhus’ war
II. Preparations for War?
1. Post-Pyrrhic consolidations
2. Plans for a war?
3. The Romans and Sicily
III. The Mamertine Appeal
1. Difficulties with dates
2. The ungrateful Mamertines
IV. Debating the Appeal
1. The Mamertines’ deditio
2. The Romans’ debates
3. The Roman war-aims in 264
4. Course of the debates
5. Time-span of the debates
V. The Punic-Syracusan Alliance
1. Messana vacated
2. Alliance of old foes
VI. An Unwanted War
1. Appius at the straits: discrepant sources
2. Appius’ offer of talks
3. The sea-fight and aftermath
4. Crossing to Messana
5. Appius in battle
VII. Escalation
1. Ap. Claudius against Syracuse
2. Valerius and Otacilius against Syracuse
3. Valerius in the west
VIII. From Enmity to Goodwill
1. Wartime talks
2. The peace of Lutatius
3. A season of goodwill
4. Family politics in the 230s and 220s?
IX. The Rape of Sardinia
1. How it was done
2. Why it was done
X. Imaginary Confrontations in the 230s
1. Fictional clashes
2. Envoys to Hamilcar?
XI. Hasdrubal’s Accord
1. The Barcid ascendancy
2. The accord with Hasdrubal: date
3. The accord: arguments about content
4. The aim of the accord: competing views
XII. Saguntum
1. Friendship or alliance?
2. The Saguntine connexion: date
3. Saguntines in crisis
4. The Saguntines’ neighbours
5. Saguntines request arbitration
6. The Romans arbitrate
XIII. Hannibal and the Ambassadors
1. The embassy of 220: aims
2. Disputed datings
3. The Roman démarche
4. The ambassadors at Carthage
XIV. Saguntum Besieged
1. The Saguntines on their own
2. The Romans in debate
XV. War to Save Face
1. The ultimatum
2. Could the embassy declare war?
3. Roman envoys to Punic senate
4. Punic senate to Roman envoys
5. War declared
6. From diplomacy to warfare, 218 B.C.
XVI. Conclusions
1. A Roman expansionist war?
2. Punic plans and prospects
3. Punic wars and Roman imperialism
4. Avoidable wars?
XVII. The Major Sources
1. Lost accounts
2. Surviving sources
3. Bias and inaccuracies the problem of Polybius
4. Problems with the later sources
Bibliography
Index I. Names and Topics
Index II. Passages Cited
