Hannibal's Legacy - The Hannibalic War's Effects on Roman Life: Volume II Rome and Her Neighbors after Hannibal's Exit

by Arnold Joseph Toynbee

Hannibal's Legacy examines the effects, economical, social, political and religious, on Roman life of Rome's Complete military victory over Carthage in the first two Romano-Carthaginian wars, Ironically Rome's life was deranged ---- irretrievably, as it turned out ---- by the aftermath of this victory. some far-reaching changes had already been made before the war, because, in extending her political control over South-Eastern Italy, Rome had welded her Commonwealth onto the post-Alexandrian Mediterranean World. In any case she would, sooner or later, have had to bring her institutions into line with those of the more precocious contemporary Greek and Phoenician societies. The Hannibalic War and its sequels quickened the pace of this process of adaptation, and the transformation of Roman life now took a revolutionary turn that was catastrophic.
The first Volume Surveys and analysis the structure of the Roman Commonwealth at about the year 266 B.C., and its historical background, and compares Rome with her principal contemporaries in the Mediterranean World.
This Second Volume traces the developments in Peninsular and Transappennine Italy from the second bout of the Double War to the eve of the tribunate of Tiberius Gracchus in 133 B.C., which was the beginning of Rome's one-hundreds-year-long political revolution. It also deals with Rome's relations with the Greek part of the Mediterranean World during the same years.

752 pages, Hardcover

Published January 1, 1965

About the author

Not the same as Arnold Toynbee, economist and nephew of Arnold Joseph Toynbee

British educator Arnold Joseph Toynbee noted cyclical patterns in the growth and decline of civilizations for his 12-volume Study of History (1934-1961).

He went to Winchester college and Balliol college, Oxford.

During both world wars, he worked for the foreign office. He additionally published Nationality and the War (1915), The Armenian Atrocities: The Murder of a Nation (1915), The German Terror in France: An Historical Record (1917), and Turkey, a Past and a Future (1917). He attended the peace conference of Paris in 1919 as a delegate.

From 1919 to 1924, Arnold J. Toynbee served as professor of modern Greek and Byzantine at King's college, London. From 1925, Oxford University Press published The Survey of International Affairs under the auspices of the royal institute of international affairs, and Toynbee, professor, oversaw the publication. From 1925, Toynbee served as research professor and director at the royal institute of international affairs. He published The Conduct of British Empire Foreign Relations since the Peace Settlement (1928).

His first marriage to Rosalind Murray produced three sons and ended in divorce in 1946. Toynbee, professor, then married Veronica M. Boulter, his research assistant. He published Civilization on Trial (1948).

Toynbee served as research professor and director at the royal institute of international affairs until 1955.
People published best known lectures of Toynbee, professor, in memory of Adam Gifford as An Historian's Approach to Religion (1956). His massive work examined development and decay. He presented the rise and fall rather than nation-states or ethnic groups. According to his analysis, the welfare depends on ability to deal successfully with challenges.

He also published Democracy in the Atomic Age (1957), Christianity among the Religions of the World (1958), and Between Niger and Nile (1965).

He died in York, North Yorkshire, England.