Everand Logo

Welcome to Everand!

  • Discover millions of ebooks, audiobooks, and so much more with a free trial

    Only $11.99/month after trial. Cancel anytime.

    Unavailable
    Rome Spreads Her Wings: Territorial Expansion Between the Punic Wars
    Unavailable
    Rome Spreads Her Wings: Territorial Expansion Between the Punic Wars
    Unavailable
    Rome Spreads Her Wings: Territorial Expansion Between the Punic Wars
    Ebook404 pages6 hours

    Rome Spreads Her Wings: Territorial Expansion Between the Punic Wars

    By Gareth Sampson

    3/5

    ()

    Currently unavailable

    Currently unavailable

    About this ebook

    The two decades between the end of the First Punic War and the beginning of the Second represent a key period in the development of Rome’s imperial ambitions, both within Italy and beyond. Within Italy, Rome faced an invasion of Gauls from Northern Italy, which threatened the very existence of the Roman state. This war culminated at the Battle of Telamon and the final Roman victory against the Gauls of Italy, giving Rome control of the peninsula up to the Alps for the first time in her history. Beyond the shores of Italy, Rome acquired her first provinces, in the form of Sardinia and Corsica, established footholds in Sicily and Spain and crossed the Adriatic to establish a presence on the Greek mainland, bringing Rome into the orbit of the Hellenistic World.

    Yet this period is often treated as nothing more than an intermission between the two better known Punic Wars, with each Roman campaign being made seemingly in anticipation of a further conflict with Carthage. Such a view overlooks two key factors that emerge from these decades: firstly, that Rome faced a far graver threat in the form of the Gauls of Northern Italy than she had faced at the hands of the Carthaginians in the First Punic War; secondly, that the foundations for Rome’s overseas empire were laid in these very decades. This work seeks to redress the balance and view these wars in their own right, analyse how close Rome came to being defeated in Italy and asses the importance of these decades as a key period in the foundation of Rome’s future empire.
    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherPen and Sword
    Release dateJun 19, 2016
    ISBN9781473874534
    Unavailable
    Rome Spreads Her Wings: Territorial Expansion Between the Punic Wars

    Related to Rome Spreads Her Wings

    Related ebooks

    Wars & Military For You

    View More
    View More

    Related podcast episodes

    Related articles

    • Article

      The Mighty Frontier

      Jun 16, 2023

      The history of the Roman invasion of Scotland is a fascinating and turbulent story filled with sweeping action, bloody conflict, and larger than life characters – figures who, during the first four centuries after the birth of Christ, personally led

      3 min read

    • Article

      Michael Wood On…

      Mar 19, 2020

      I recently went up to the wet and windy Lancashire coast, with trains disrupted by floods beyond Preston, to talk to the wonderful Lytham St Annes Classical Association. It’s the biggest branch of the Classical Association in the UK, with almost 600

      3 min read

    • Article

      A Rising Star

      Mar 2, 2020

      A Rising Star
      6 min read

    • Article

      The New Frontier

      Apr 14, 2022

      The New Frontier
      3 min read

    • Article

      Celts Through Time

      Aug 13, 2020

      The proto-Celtic Urnfield culture, a cultural period centred around Urnfield cremation sites, emerges in Central Europe in the late Bronze Age. Hallstatt culture, an early Iron Age culture named after an Austrian town, begins in central Europe. At th

      2 min read

    • Article

      Letters

      May 12, 2022

      I feel that the article concerning Napoleon (April) was unfair to its subject. While his later career frequently saw his original ideals undermined by the reality of power, he was from the first a believer in the revolution, as his letters and genera

      3 min read

    • Article

      Roman Myth

      Oct 9, 2021

      Classical Caledonia: Roman History and Myth in Eighteenth-Century Scotland Alan Montgomery Edinburgh University Press, 2020 225 pages Hardcover, £75.00 ISBN: 9781474445641 In this engaging and well-researched book, Alan Montgomery invites us to eaves

      3 min read

    • Article

      How Dark Were The Dark Ages?

      Feb 20, 2020

      How Dark Were The Dark Ages?
      10 min read

    • Article

      Get Hooked

      Dec 29, 2021

      Russell and Laycock look at the myths of Roman Britain, exploring why many Britons never fully embraced the empire, and how even the Roman army in Britain became chronically rebellious and a source of instability that ultimately affected the whole re

      1 min read

    • Article

      The End Of Empire

      Jun 17, 2020

      The End Of Empire
      8 min read

    • Article

      The First Crusade Had Been Defeated?

      Apr 22, 2021

      Professor of Global History at Oxford University, Director of the Centre for Byzantine Research and Senior Research Fellow at Worcester College. Author of The First Crusade: The Call From The East, and The Silk Roads: A New History Of The World Who w

      5 min read

    • Article

      The End Of An Era

      Dec 29, 2021

      The End Of An Era
      3 min read

    • Article

      Real History Of The Gladiators

      Dec 30, 2021

      Real History Of The Gladiators
      12 min read

    • Article

      Looting During The War Against Perseus idle Hands…

      Feb 16, 2024

      However, the start of the campaign had not been easy. Livy offers a ‘different’ history of how two Roman officers, the praetors Gaius Lucretius Gallus and Lucius Hortensius, caused protests among Rome’s allies, and legal proceedings in Rome, by their

      8 min read

    • Article

      The Great Unravelling

      Dec 28, 2022

      The Great Unravelling
      3 min read

    • Article

      The Highl And War, Part 1

      Dec 10, 2022

      The Highl And War, Part 1
      13 min read

    • Article

      2022 - A Historic Year

      Jan 12, 2022

      What historical anniversaries can we look forward to this year? As Eleanor Doughty writes on page 80, it was a century ago, in 1922, that Howard Carter chiselled away at the plastered door in the Valley of the Kings to reveal those ‘wonderful things’

      3 min read

    • Article

      Reviews Fault Lines

      Nov 5, 2019

      Reviews Fault Lines
      4 min read

    • Article

      The Road To Hadrian’s Wall

      Jul 7, 2022

      The Road To Hadrian’s Wall
      11 min read

    • Article

      Reviews

      Jun 8, 2021

      By Dr. Sean Manning ISBN: 978-3515127752 Franz Steiner Verlag (2021) - €74.00 www.steiner-verlag.de Sean Manning is on a mission. He has spent several years immersed in the military history of the Achaemenid Empire and this excellent, major contribut

      6 min read

    Reviews for Rome Spreads Her Wings

    3/5

    3 ratings1 review

    What did you think?

    Tap to rate

    Review must be at least 10 words

    • 1/5
      Doesnt work, one more book that its not working properly