Table of Contents

PART ONE
ROME AND CARTHAGE: 264 BC
1. Two Republics
2. Warfare
PART TWO
THE FIRST PUNIC WAR AND AFTERMATH: 264-218
3. Sicily and its Seas, 264-257
4. Africa and after: 256-249
5. Stalemate and Checkmate: 249-241
6. Between the Wars: 241-218
PART THREE
THE SECOND PUNIC WAR: 218-201
7. Hannibal's invasion, 218-211
8. The War beyond Italy
9. Scipio and Roman Victory: 210-201
PART FOUR
THE LAST CONFLICT
10. Rome, Masinissa, and Carthage
11. The Triumph of Rome
Conclusions
Appendix 152
the sources

About the Author

Dexter Hoyos is retired Associate Professor in Classics and Ancient History from the University of Sydney, Australia. His many books include, most recently, Hannibal: Rome's Greatest Enemy, The Carthaginians, and A Companion to the Punic Wars.

Reviews

"Mastering the West offers its readers the fruits of Hoyos' expertise in both Carthaginian and Roman cultures. With sympathy and criticism for both sides, he skillfully leads his reader through the complex history of the Punic Wars, reaching beyond the maneuvering of armies to explore the motives, catalysts, and decision-making that lay between the battles. This will certainly become a fundamental text for studying both the Roman Republic and
Carthage."
--Fred K. Drogula, Providence College
"Dexter Hoyos combines a clear, scholarly, detailed storyline of these events with careful unpicking of the sources...Hoyos is very good on strategy...He is also adept at outlining the tactics of various parties, skilfully explaining how Hannibal's early brilliant victories meant nothing because Rome realised that guerrilla tactics would gradually wear him down... All in all, this account is a great success." -BBC History Magazine
"This book, on Rome's three Punic Wars, is a welcome addition to the series, especially since the flow of the narrative (eminently accessible to undergraduate readers) is firmly grounded in the primary and secondary literature, and in sound scholarly judgments." --R. T. Ingoglia, Caldwell University
"No one has greater mastery over the history of the conflict between Carthage and Rome than Dexter Hoyos, whose fluent and exciting account of the three Punic Wars brightly illuminates the ancient Mediterranean." --David Abulafia, author of The Great Sea
"Dexter Hoyos is the doyen among historians of the Punic Wars, and he is at the height of his powers here. This volume synthesizes a lifetime's study of Rome and Carthage to offer readers a masterful account of the dramatic events that transformed the ancient world." --Nathan Rosenstein, author of Rome and the Mediterranean 290 to 146 BC