An ancient tradition affirms that the sojourn in Capua during the fall of 216-215 BC deleteriously corrupted the martial spirits of Carthaginian troops and was a major cause for the decline of Hannibal’s fortunes in the Second Punic War. The paper discusses the availability of this tradition, well-attested both in Roman and Greek sources, eventually putting forth the hypothesis that its origin was in Cato the Elder’ s work.

Annibale e gli ozi di Capua: una ‘favola per retori’?

Cristina Pepe
2019

Abstract

An ancient tradition affirms that the sojourn in Capua during the fall of 216-215 BC deleteriously corrupted the martial spirits of Carthaginian troops and was a major cause for the decline of Hannibal’s fortunes in the Second Punic War. The paper discusses the availability of this tradition, well-attested both in Roman and Greek sources, eventually putting forth the hypothesis that its origin was in Cato the Elder’ s work.
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