Carthaginians 6th 2nd Century BC

Featuring specially commissioned full-colour artwork, this study presents up-to-date research on the armies of Rome''s most dangerous rival.

Carthage, the port-city in Tunisia first settled by Phoenicians from Tyre, grew to extend a competitive maritime trading empire all over the Western Mediterranean and beyond, increasingly defended by the best navy of the period. In the 6th century BC this came...