Silius Italicus
Punica (The Second Carthaginian War)
‘Hannibal crossing the Alps’
Heinrich Leutemann (German, 1824 - 1905)
Yale University Art Gallery
...let your daring in battle be as great as Rome’s fear.
Raze this last obstacle that remains,
and nothing will be left for you to conquer
in all this world.
Book I: The opening of the war
Book III: Hannibal crosses into Italy
Book V: The battle of Lake Trasimene
Book VII: Fabius Maximus, the Delayer
Book VIII: The armies at Cannae
Book XII: Hannibal advances on Rome
Book XIII: Scipio and the Sibyl of Cumae
Book XIV: Marcellus campaigns in Sicily
Book XV: Scipio campaigns in Spain
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