The Hero of the Alps (Polybius III, 47, 6-48, 12) : Mercury Aletes Polybius criticizes the historians who, prisoners of their lies and contradictions, represent Hannibal as an exceptional and inimitable chief, but undertaking thoughtlessly to cross the Alps and finding safety in some hero's intervention. Most of modern scholars do not even wonder whether a special divinity is hidden the generic term of « hero » or not. Some of them, nevertheless, identify the hero with the punic Hercules. In fact, by revisiting the question, it is permitted to conclude that the hero is the punic Mercury Aletes.Polybe critique les historiens qui, prisonniers de leurs mensonges et de leurs contradictions, représentent Hannibal comme un chef exceptionnel, in...
Moins terrorisée par le spectre du « formalisme », la critique historique eût été peut-être moins st...
Halleux Robert. Sur le prétendu vinaigre employé par Hannibal dans les Alpes. In: Comptes rendus des...
Taking into account the political opinion of his audience, Herodotus did not greatly criticize Spart...
The Hero of the Alps (Polybius III, 47, 6-48, 12) : Mercury Aletes Polybius criticizes the histori...
The mountain, with its excesses, is often the space for hyperbole. The case of Hannibal's crossing t...
Over the last two millennia all the proposed invasion routes followed by the Punic Army in 218bchave...
A comparison of the description of Hannibal's shield in the Punica with its Virgilian counterpart se...
Le cadre spatial et temporel de l’étude est restreint : il s’agit de l’itinéraire suivi entrele Rhôn...
The Roman’s victory over the Seleucids at Apamea in 188 B.C. offers them the chance to become the mo...
This king, in many ways strange in the Spartan system, is not studied. Our springs are very poor, so...
Le récit hérodotéen des aventures d'Alexandre et d'Hélène en Égypte est pour l'essentiel de source p...
A true myth is built around the figure of Hannibal and his journey to Rome through the Alps. After l...
The author analyses the Greek and Latin literary sources pertaining to Claudius Gothicus and the opi...
Living in the fifth century CE, the poet Dracontius challenges the Homeric tradition by choosing to ...
Petronius when calling Hannibal “a lizard” not only alludes to the symbolic system built upon the c...
Moins terrorisée par le spectre du « formalisme », la critique historique eût été peut-être moins st...
Halleux Robert. Sur le prétendu vinaigre employé par Hannibal dans les Alpes. In: Comptes rendus des...
Taking into account the political opinion of his audience, Herodotus did not greatly criticize Spart...
The Hero of the Alps (Polybius III, 47, 6-48, 12) : Mercury Aletes Polybius criticizes the histori...
The mountain, with its excesses, is often the space for hyperbole. The case of Hannibal's crossing t...
Over the last two millennia all the proposed invasion routes followed by the Punic Army in 218bchave...
A comparison of the description of Hannibal's shield in the Punica with its Virgilian counterpart se...
Le cadre spatial et temporel de l’étude est restreint : il s’agit de l’itinéraire suivi entrele Rhôn...
The Roman’s victory over the Seleucids at Apamea in 188 B.C. offers them the chance to become the mo...
This king, in many ways strange in the Spartan system, is not studied. Our springs are very poor, so...
Le récit hérodotéen des aventures d'Alexandre et d'Hélène en Égypte est pour l'essentiel de source p...
A true myth is built around the figure of Hannibal and his journey to Rome through the Alps. After l...
The author analyses the Greek and Latin literary sources pertaining to Claudius Gothicus and the opi...
Living in the fifth century CE, the poet Dracontius challenges the Homeric tradition by choosing to ...
Petronius when calling Hannibal “a lizard” not only alludes to the symbolic system built upon the c...
Moins terrorisée par le spectre du « formalisme », la critique historique eût été peut-être moins st...
Halleux Robert. Sur le prétendu vinaigre employé par Hannibal dans les Alpes. In: Comptes rendus des...
Taking into account the political opinion of his audience, Herodotus did not greatly criticize Spart...