What are the best books about the Punic Wars? All I've

Carthage Must be Destroyed gives a great account of the wars. As the author himself says, pretty much everything we know about the Carthaginians, outside of archaeological remains, was written by the Romans, so a good 75ish percent of the book is a very detailed account of the Punic Wars.

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this. CMBD is great and Goldworthy's work you mention is also very respected. I think they will indeed give you a comprehensive view but I know of other works that I've posted in previous threads on the punic war if you're interested

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>>2220223
that sounds great!

Please do tell

Do we actually know what Punic soldiers looked like or how they specifically fought? Seems like any depictions are just generic vaguely Mediterranean hoplite types that seem like the byproduct of a lack of information, nothing that stands out as uniquely Punic the way you could immediately identify a Roman soldier as such for example.

Dan Carlin has a decent introductory podcast on it. Punic Nightmare, 3 parts.

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They used a lot of different peoples, mercenaries.

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Yeah, I'm doing some reading. Seems like it really was largely just a hodgepodge of whoever was willing to fight for their gold without a strong set military tradition of their own like Rome had. I guess the vague generic depictions are accurate.

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Bishop, M. C., and Jon C. N. Coulston. Roman Military Equipment from the Punic Wars to the Fall of Rome. 2d ed. Oxford: Oxbow, 2006.
>Excellent study of military artifacts; among its riches are military standards, musical instruments, and various forms of armor. Ample bibliography.

Daly, G. Cannae: The Experience of Battle in the Second Punic War. London: Routledge, 2002.
>Daly describes the lead-up to the infamous battle, traditional scholarly interpretations about the course of events, and the critical interpretation of our primary sources (especially Polybius).

Richardson, John S. Hispaniae: Spain and the Development of Roman Imperialism, 218–82 BC. Cambridge, UK: Cambridge University Press, 1986.
>Careful study of Rome’s Spanish provinciae (with detail on that word’s use over time) and the several campaigns there; relevant to the Second Punic War, early Roman imperialism (where Richardson sees aggressive, defensive, and economic motives all at play), and Roman military history in general during the Middle Republic.

Fronda, M. P. 2010. Between Rome and Carthage: Southern Italy during the Second Punic War. Cambridge, UK: Cambridge Univ. Press.
>A salutary corrective to sweeping generalizations about Roman imperialism, demonstrating that in Italy during the Hannibalic War, individual communities’ policy decisions played an important role.

Feig Vishnia, R. 1996. State, society, and popular leaders in mid-Republican Rome, 241–167 B.C. London: Routledge.
>Focuses primarily on aristocratic competition following the First Punic War (264–241 BCE).

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