Hannibal Once More (Classic Reprint) - Hardcover

Douglas W. Freshfield

9780484269117: Hannibal Once More (Classic Reprint)

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0484269119 ISBN 13: 9780484269117

Publisher: Forgotten Books, 2018

Excerpt from Hannibal Once More

The following pages do not pretend to offer a summary, or analysis, of recent attempts to elucidate the historical episode they deal with. They are rather an endeavour to treat the classical texts relating to Hannibal's Passage of the Alps' from the point of view of an Alpine traveller and; topographer. In undertaking this task I have'n' been impressed by the importance of a fragment from Varro which has come down to us, and by the curious way in which it has been either ignored, or what seems to me its plain meaning distorted and obscured, by most of my prede cessors in this discussion. Incidentally I have been led to examine somewhat closely the argu ments recently brought forward by several French military writers in their effort to prove that Hannibal crossed the Col du Clapier, a lofty and difficult by-pass near the Mont Oenis. I have been urged to do this by the fact that their theory has been adopted and put forward in this country by the Professor of Military History in the University of Oxford, Mr. Spenser Wilkinson.

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