Sublime

Writing it up

Hannibal and his Carthaginian army – the Second Punic War.

There is no earlier period in the history of the West that it is possible to get to know quite so well or so intimately (we have nothing like such rich and varied evidence from classical Athens). It is not for more than a millennium, in the world of Renaissance Florence, that we find any other place that we can know in such detail again.

Succession

Human property

Archaeology, tyranny – and rape

Archaeology, tyranny – and rape

Power politics