"The First Punic War (264-241 BC) was the longest continuous war in ancient history, and arguably one of the most important. Fought between Carthage and Rome, it marks the point at which Rome ceased to be an essentially Italian power and became one of the great powers of the Med…
This is a college-level course which addresses three wars fought in antiquity: the Persian Wars, the Peloponnesian War, and the Punic Wars. Each had a decisive effect in shaping the communal sense of Western values, even two thousand years later.
Wars that made the western world
by Recorded Books, Inc, Shutt, Timothy Baker
fromModern scholar
In this course, Kenyon College professor Dr. Timothy B. Shutt addresses three wars fought in antiquity, each of which had--even two thousand years and more later--a decisive effect in shaping our communal sense of who we are, wherever Western values hold.