Classics professor Robert Garland has two new releases through Bristol Classical Press: Hannibal and The Eye of the Beholder: Deformity and Disability in the Graeco-Roman World, Second Edition.
In Hannibal, Garland spotlights the Carthaginian general whose military and political career made him one of history’s greatest survivors, Rome’s most formidable adversary, and the man who came closest to destroying the power base in Italy.
At the same time, Garland writes, Hannibal did more than anyone else to bring Carthage to the edge of ruin.
Garland investigates Hannibal’s unintended yet powerful legacy and concludes that he is both an inspiration and a warning to anyone who dreams big dreams.
The second edition of The Eye of the Beholder is in paperback, with a new preface and updated bibliography.
This first-ever book-length investigation into the plight of the disabled and deformed in Graeco-Roman society draws on literary texts, medical tracts, vase paintings, sculpture, mythology, and ethnography.
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