Second Punic War

second war between the Roman Republic and Carthage, fought between 218 and 201 BCE

Albenga (; ) is a city and comune situated on the Gulf of Genoa on the Italian Riviera in the Province of Savona in Liguria, northern Italy.

large fulcrum based pole with rope and anchor, by hooking ship and applying weight at other end, lift is applied to the vessel capsizing and scuttling it.

2nd-century Roman jurist and historian

Carthaginian attack on the Roman Republic through the Alps

peace treaty

poem by Silius Italicus

Neo-Latin epic poem

215 BC treaty between Carthage and Macedon

artistic theme

Surus was believed to be the last war elephant of Carthaginian general Hannibal's army in Italy.

siege engine

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Suessula was an ancient city of Campania, southern Italy, situated in the interior of the peninsula, near the frontier with Samnium, between Capua and Nola, and about 7 km northeast of Acerrae, Suessula is now a vanished city and the archeological site belongs to the city of Acerra, and not to San Felice a Cancello as reported in some sources.

painting by Andrea Mantegna

painting by Bellini in the National Gallery of Art, Washington D.C.

iron age oppidum in southern France

city wall in Cartagena, Spain

fortress overlooking the town of Sagunto, near Valencia in Spain

Rediculus is an ancient Roman divinity. His cult had a temple near the Porta Capena, and a campus on the Appian Way.

Salapia (also called Salpe and Salpi) is an ancient settlement and bishopric in Daunia, Italy near Cerignola and Manfredonia. The settlement was probably built for and named after the salt marsh - the ancient Lake Salpi is now Saline di Margherita di Savoia. Salapia is mentioned by Pliny the Elder, Ptolemy and probably the "Elpia" of Strabo, but according to Smith (1857) in relation to the later town, and not an earlier original settlement.

Hibera is an ancient city, known for being a strategic point from which the Second Punic War is said to have originated. It was fought over by the Carthaginians and the Romans during this period. According to the texts, most of them from Livy's History of Rome, the city was situated in the north east of the Iberian Peninsula, near the mouth of the Ebro river. After the occupation and rule of both nations the city adopted the name Dertosa.