The rise of Rome to 264 / John Serrati -- Early relations between Rome and Carthage / Barbara Scardigli -- The rise of Carthage to 264 / Watler Amelina -- Manpower and food supply in the First and Second Punic Wars / Paul Erdkamp -- Phalanx and legion: the "face" of Punic War Battle / Sam Koon -- Polybius and the Punic Wars / Craige B. Champion -- Principal literary sources for the Punic Wars, apart from Polybius / Bernard Mineo -- The outbreak of war / Dexter Hoyos -- A war of phases: strategies and stalemates 264-241 / Boris Rankov -- Roman politics in the first Punic War / Bruno Bleckmann -- Roman politics and expansion, 241-219 / Luigi Loreto -- Carthage in Africa and Spain, 241-218 / Dexter Hoyos -- The reasons for the war / Hans Beck -- Hannibal: tactics, strategy and geostrategy / Michael P. Fronda -- Hannibal and propaganda / Richard Miles -- Roman strategy and aims in the second Punic War / Klaus Zimmerman -- The war in Italy, 218-203 / Louis Rawlings -- War abroad: Spain, Sicily, Macedon, Africa / Peter Edwell -- Rome, Latins and Italians in the Second Punic War / Kathryn Lomas -- Punic politics, economy and alliances, 218-201 / Pedro Barceló -- Roman economy, finance and politics in the second Punic War / Toni Ñaco del Hoyo -- Carthage and Numidia, 201-150 / Claudia Kunze -- Italy: economy and demography after Hannibal's War / Nathan Rosenstein -- The 'third Punic War': the siege of Carthage, 148-146 BC / Yann Le Bohec -- Death and transfiguration: punic culture after 146 / M'hamed-Hassine Fantar -- Spain, Africa and Rome after Carthage / John Richardson -- Carthage and Hannibal in Roman and Greek memory / Giovanni Brizzi