This book is a work of fiction and should only be read as a novel. It was inspired by real figures and events, but I have taken many liberties to arrange the material into a workable narrative. For those interested in a historian's take, there are many sources to consult, beginning with the ancients themselves: Polybius and Livy. Among the many more recent texts I considered, I wore a few thin and ragged: Lesley and Roy A. Adkins' Handbook to Life in Ancient Rome; Nigel Bagnall's The Punic Wars; Ernle Bradford's Hannibal; Brian Caven's The Punic Wars; Leonard Cottrell's Hannibaclass="underline" Enemy of Rome; Gregory Daly's Cannae; Theodore Ayrault Dodge's Hannibal; Florence Dupont's Daily Life in Ancient Rome; Peter Berresford Ellis' The Celtic Empire; Gustave Flaubert's Salammbô; Adrian Goldsworthy's Cannae; Victor Hanson's Carnage and Culture; B. H. Liddell Hart's Scipio Africanus; Serge Lancel's Hannibal; J. F. Lazenby's The First Punic War and Hannibal's War: A Military History of the Second Punic War; John Peddie's Hannibal's War; John Prevas' Hannibal Crosses the Alps; Frank M. Snowden's Blacks in Antiquity; John Gibson Warry's Warfare in the Classical World; and Terrence Wise's Armies of the Carthaginian Wars, 265–146 B.C.
ABOUT THE AUTHOR
David Anthony Durham is the author of the novels Gabriel's Story and Walk Through Darkness, both New York Times Notable Books. In 2002 he received the Legacy Award for Debut Fiction from the Zora Neale Hurston/Richard Wright Foundation. He lives with his wife and two children in rural Scotland.
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This book is a work of fiction. Names, characters, businesses, organizations, places, events, and incidents either are the product of the author's imagination or are used fictitiously. Any resemblance to actual persons, living or dead, events, or locales is entirely coincidental.
Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data
Durham, David Anthony, 1969–
Pride of Carthage : a novel of Hannibal / David Anthony Durham.
p. cm.
1. Punic War, 2nd, 218–201 B.C.—Fiction. 2. Hannibal, 247–182 B.C.—Fiction. 3. Carthage (Extinct city)—Fiction. 4. Generals— Fiction. I. Title
PS3554.U677P75 2005
813'.6—dc22
2004045532
Copyright © 2005 by David Anthony Durham
All Rights Reserved
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