Talk:Hannibal (Mercenary War)

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How on earth is this suspected of being a hoax? It is now clearly referenced. PatGallacher (talk) 21:20, 28 August 2010 (UTC)
 * Agreed that going straight to "hoax", rather than "unreferenced" seems heavy-handed. But the reference to "Galsworthy, Adrian The Punic Wars" is presumably to "Goldsworthy"  ISBN 030435967X, and gives no page number.  There is also a reference at "Moral vision in the Histories of Polybius, by Arthur M. Eckstein", ISBN 0520085205, p.177 which I think justifies removal of that tag.  Kenilworth Terrace (talk) 16:26, 29 August 2010 (UTC)

Crucifixion
It seems that it was the historical general Hannon who was crucified at Tunis. Flaubert conflates this Hannibal with Hannon. "Flaubert's Literary Development ... by Algernon Coleman" Kenilworth Terrace (talk) 16:32, 29 August 2010 (UTC)

I agree that Flaubert conflates Hanno and Hannibal, but I think you've got it the wrong way round. In the novel Hanno is crucified at Tunis (this should be easy to check as it is online) and in a postscript Flaubert says that there was a general crucified by the mercenaries, but his name was Hannibal, but this would have confused his readers. PatGallacher (talk) 22:47, 29 August 2010 (UTC)