Hannibal, a Carthaginian general and one of the greatest generals that ever lived was renown for his strategies and courageousness, such as crossing the Alps and using the “bottleneck strategy” at Lake Trasemene. He used strategies that a lot of generals at this time, especially Roman generals, would never think of and in doing this he almost destroyed the Roman republic. Hannibal's first battle took place when he was only nine. He went on an …showed first 75 words of 1071 total…

…showed last 75 words of 1071 total…Italy was permanently impoverished. In fact, in our own century, in the 1960s, the Italian government began to attempt to recover and reclaim the land from Hannibal, an effort that still goes on intermittently. Hannibal's legacy outlived Rome itself, Cato the Elder would be turning over in his grave if he knew this. Bibliography · Livy, The War with Hannibal. Penguin Press. · Cotterell, Arthur ed., The Encyclopedia of Ancient Civilization (New York; Mayflower Books, 1980) · Class notes