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Carthage in Flames: 1960: 149–146 BC: Depicts the last of the Punic Wars between the Roman Republic and Carthage. The Centurion: 1961: 146 BC: Battle of Corinth between Rome and the Achaean League: Ancient Rome: The Rise and Fall of an Empire: 2006: 146 BC–410 AD: From Tiberius Gracchus to the Sack of Rome (410). BBC Docu-drama. Julius ...
Giants of Rome: 1964 Italian-French adventure film set in the Roman warfare against Vercingetorix (directed by Antonio Margheriti), with Richard Harrison as Claudius Marcellus Julius Caesar: 1950 (directed by David Bradley). This is a film adaptation of Shakespeare's play: Julius Caesar: 1953
By 264 BC Carthage was the dominant external power on the island, and Carthage and Rome were the preeminent powers in the western Mediterranean. [25] Relationships were good, and the two states had several times declared their mutual friendship in formal alliances: in 509 BC, 348 BC and around 279 BC. There were strong commercial links.
The show started as a documentary about the engineering feats of Ancient Rome and later evolved into a series. [ citation needed ] It originally ran for one full season of weekly episodes. A video game, History: Egypt – Engineering an Empire , was released in 2010.
Histro Mitzkov as Gisgo, an officer in Hannibal's army who notably comments on the strength of the Roman army at Cannae. This earns Hannibal's comment that, while there are indeed a lot of Romans, none of them are called Gisgo. Romans. Shaun Dingwall as Scipio Africanus, the Roman general who finally defeated Hannibal.
The Roman triumph was a civil ceremony and religious rite of ancient Rome, held to publicly celebrate and sanctify the success of a military commander who had led Roman forces to victory in the service of the state or, in some historical traditions, one who had successfully completed a foreign war.
The film is set in ancient Sicily, Carthage, and Cirta during the period of the Second Punic War (218–202 BC). It follows the story of an abducted little girl, Cabiria, and features an eruption of Mount Etna , religious rituals in Carthage , the alpine trek of Hannibal , Archimedes ' defeat of the Roman fleet at the Siege of Syracuse and ...
The main source for most aspects of the Punic Wars [note 1] is the historian Polybius (c. 200 – c. 118 BC), a Greek sent to Rome in 167 BC as a hostage. [2] His works include a now-lost manual on military tactics, [3] but he is best known for The Histories, written sometime after 146 BC.