It is a symptom of the deplorable state of intellectual life today that readers of this magazine can guess the lineaments of the story told in Hannibal the instant they read early in its pages that ...

The Second Punic War is ripe for dramatisation, so it's odd that Hollywood hasn't picked it apart. Maybe it's because the "bad guys" win in the end. Rome initiates yet another war against its old ...

The ancient Greek essayist Plutarch used “parallel lives” to describe his collection of biographical sketches, in which he paired illustrious Greeks with Romans who lived, in most cases, centuries ...

CARTHAGE HAD EXISTED for over half a millennium when the Romans destroyed it in 146 BCE. Located in a natural harbor on the coast of modern day Tunisia, it was for centuries the great maritime power ...

'Carthage must be destroyed'—the title of Richard Miles's book was the constant theme of the Roman statesman Marcus Porcius Cato (234-149 B.C.). In the last years of his long life, Cato became ...

The classical education guru Andrew Kern, head of the Circe Institute, writes on Facebook: I have heard people compare the US to Rome since I was a child, and no wonder since our founders rather ...

Total War: Rome 2 developer The Creative Assembly has unveiled and detailed one of the games key factions. The north-African Carthaginian army comes from the trading state Carthage, and with it brings ...

All the Latest Game Footage and Images from Hannibal: Rome and Carthage in the Second Punic War Hannibal: Rome and Carthage in the Second Punic War is a new and innovative turn-based strategy game ...

Total War: Rome 2 is out now; here's our Total War: Rome 2 review. Just a hint of elephants; Creative Assembly sure know how to tease us. Even with 10 minutes of gameplay footage, showing off the ...