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A Treatise on Hannibal's Passage of the Alps: In Which his Route Is Traced over the Little Mont Cenis

Paperback / softback

Main Details

Title A Treatise on Hannibal's Passage of the Alps: In Which his Route Is Traced over the Little Mont Cenis
Authors and Contributors      By (author) Robert Ellis
SeriesCambridge Library Collection - Classics
Physical Properties
Format:Paperback / softback
Pages:212
Dimensions(mm): Height 216,Width 140
ISBN/Barcode 9781108075770
ClassificationsDewey:937.04
Audience
Professional & Vocational
Illustrations 6 Maps

Publishing Details

Publisher Cambridge University Press
Imprint Cambridge University Press
Publication Date 6 November 2014
Publication Country United Kingdom

Description

The controversy over the route taken by Hannibal, the Carthaginian army and his famous elephants in their crossing of the Alps to attack Rome in 218 BCE began within fifty years of the event and has continued for many centuries. A particular scholarly dispute emerged in the 1850s between Robert Ellis (1819/20-85) and William John Law (1786-1869), and was fought in the pages of the Journal of Classical and Sacred Philology and in books. Ellis, a classical scholar, had surveyed the Alpine passes in 1852 and again in 1853, when he published this work, claiming that the Little Mount Cenis route was the one used. Law responded immediately in the Journal, and later published his own theory, to which Ellis riposted in 1867 with An Enquiry into the Ancient Routes between Italy and Gaul, also reissued in this series. Modern scholarship doubts, however, that either man was right.