Article: The First Punic War.(Review)(Brief Article)

The First Punic War. By J. F. Lazenby. (Stanford: Stanford University Press, 1996. Pp. xvii, 205. $45.00.)

The author of this study deals with the historiographic issues surrounding the First Punic War in the best possible fashion for a general, yet seriously interested, readership. Lazenby articulates his own position on Polybius with perfect clarity: he is the best source we have, is to be preferred to all others except in closely argued specific cases, and knows too much for his--and our--own good. J. F. Lazenby warns us as early as the Preface that Polybius "may mislead us into thinking that the war began as a conflict between Rome and Carthage, rather than ...

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