Was the Second Punic War a Roman success or a Carthaginian failure? Consider the respective aims of both sides and their abilities to execute those goals.

Instructions: Your essay should be 1000-1200 words in length (1500 words maximum, not including notes and/bibliographical information). Either MLA or Chicago citation formatting are both acceptable. Please include at least two primary sources and two secondary sources.

Reference bibliography (all available in Geisel Library):

Primary Sources:

Livy, books 21 – 30 (passim)

Polybius, books 3-15 (some are largely fragmentary)

Plutarch, Fabius Maximus. Marcellus and Cato the Elder

Secondary Sources:

Cornell, T.J. et al., eds., The Second Punic War. A Reappraisal (London 1996)

Gruen, E. Imperialism in the Roman Republic (New York 1970)

Harris, W.V., War and Imperialism in Republican Rome 327 – 70 BC

(Oxford 1979)

Hoyos, D. ed, Blackwell Companion to the Punic Wars (Oxford 2011)

————, Mastering the West: Rome and Carthage at War (Oxford 2015)

Lance, S. Hannibal, trans. A. Nevill (Oxford 1999)

Rosenstein, N. Rome and the Mediterranean 290 to 146 (Edinburgh 2012)

Salmon, E.T., “The Strategy of the Second Punic War,” Greece and Rome,

Second series 7 (1960), 131-42