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Only one of them had elephants

Michael Kulikowski: Hannibal and Scipio, 22 May 2025

Hannibal and Scipio: Parallel Lives 
by Simon Hornblower.
Cambridge, 502 pp., £35, September 2024, 978 1 009 45335 6
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... is not impossible, however, and whether or not to accept it is discussed in a valuable section of Simon Hornblower’s dense, episodic book, a series of pointillist case studies rather than a traditional narrative or joint biography. Though it will be hard going for the general reader, Hornblower’s approach throws up ...

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