HannibalIf history is written by the victors, can we really know Hannibal, whose portrait we see through the eyes of his Roman conquerors? Eve MacDonald has produced a real page turner in this lucid account of Hannibal, the Carthaginian general whose invasion of Italy brought republican Rome almost to her knees. Antony Spawforth, author of The Story of Greece and Rome and co author of The Oxford Classical Dictionary Hannibal lived a life of incredible feats