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L'Aigle et le Lion
[978-2-35291-044-2]
20.00EUR 19.00EUR - 320 Pages
150 x 230
ISBN : 978-2-35291-044-2
Roman Historique
Collection Pierrefeu
Hannibal contre Scipion l’Africain :
de Carthagène au cœur de l’Italie,
le portrait d’un des plus grands stratèges
de l’Histoire et l’évocation héroïque
de sa lutte contre l’hégémonie romaine. IInd Century before Christ ... Alexander the Great’s and hellenised Carthagen’s heir, Hannibal grows at the contact of a cosmopolitan army and of the admophere of battle-fields, while his father Amilcar is concerned with Spain’s conquest. At the cross-roads between resentments of his surroundings against the Romans and the vision he is a acquiring of the world, appears his resolution of confronting a new Rome. Is it the mad plan of a conqueror, with the revenge of a humiliated Carthage because of his last defeat facing Rome ? Or is it a dream aimed at creating a mediterranean space which is still ours to-day ? An Epical Fresco, L’Aigle et le Lion, painting a complex and antique mediterranean space, the theatre of the first « world » conflict of History and surprisingly modern : The two most powerful antique Cities, confronting each other through human beings whose action has created our world, and whose heroïc dimension never eradicates human nature. |
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