Michael Grant's Short History of Rome, the Oxford Classical Dictionary, and Webster's Biographical Dictionary together provide a solid base on which to build a general crosschecked account of Hannibal's life and the Second Punic War. Theodor Hannibal's character, the focus of my future essay, was examined more closely in Mommsen's History of Rome and John Prevas' Hannibal Crosses The Alps. The dictionary sources provide only dry lists of events with no commentary, side notes or …showed first 75 words of 1794 total…

…showed last 75 words of 1794 total…A Short History of Rome". London: Weidenfeld and Nicolson, 1978, pages 97-109. Mommsen, Theodor. "The History of Rome - Volume II." New York: Charles Scribner's Sons, 1883, pages 115-116, 121-122. "Hannibal" in A Dictionary of Greek and Roman Biography and Mythology. London: J. Murray, 1902. "Hannibal" in Oxford Classical Dictionary, 3rd Edition. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2003. Prevas, John. "Hannibal Crosses the Alps." Rockville Centre, NY: Sarpedon, 1998, pages 39-63. "Hannibal" in Webster's Biographical Dictionary. Menacha, Wisconsin: The Collegiate Press, 1959.