Second Punic War

Paris, Bibliothèque nationale de France, lat. 5730 (Puteanus), a late antique manuscript of Livy's Third Decade

Ab Urbe Condita, Volume V: Books 21–22

Reading companion and full text of Livy's Ab Urbe Condita, Volume V (Books 21–22), translated by B. O. Foster — the opening of the Second Punic War, from Hannibal's oath through the crossing of the Alps, the battles of Trebia and Lake Trasimene, and the catastrophe of Cannae.

Biblioteca Apostolica Vaticana, Vat. lat. 1848, fol. 48v — opening of Livy Book 23, illuminated by Bartolomeo della Gatta, Rome, c. 1475–1480

Ab Urbe Condita, Volume VI: Books 23–25

Reading companion and full text of Livy's Ab Urbe Condita, Volume VI (Books 23–25), translated by F. G. Moore — the aftermath of Cannae, the defection and eventual siege of Capua, the fall of Syracuse and death of Archimedes, and the reverses in Spain.

Biblioteca Apostolica Vaticana, Vat. lat. 1848, fol. 112r — opening of Livy Book 26, illuminated by Bartolomeo della Gatta, Rome, c. 1475–1480

Ab Urbe Condita, Volume VII: Books 26–30

Reading companion and full text of Livy's Ab Urbe Condita, Volume VII (Books 26–30), translated by F. G. Moore — the turn of the Second Punic War, from the rise of Scipio Africanus in Spain through the Battle of the Metaurus, the African campaign, and the final confrontation at Zama.