Erich B. Anderson

Carthaginian soldiers on elephants fighting with Romans in the Third Punic War, 1760. Prints, Drawings and Watercolors from the Anne S.K. Brown Military Collection. Brown Digital Repository. Brown University Library.

Mamertines: The Sons of Mars

The struggle to control the straits dividing Sicily from southern Italy brought Carthage and Rome head to head. It was a world in which ruthless mercenaries called Mamertines prospered.