Vida y batallas del mayor enemigo de Roma. Conforme nos cuenta las fuentes antiguas, Aníbal tenía nueve años cuando su padre lo llevó al templo de Cartago y sumergió sus manos en la sangre del sacrificio. Fue entonces, delante de los dioses, cuando Aníbal hizo un juramento de odio eterno hacia Roma. Pocas figuras a lo largo de la Historia han logrado capturar y mantener viva de forma tan evidente la imaginación popular como la de Aníbal, el intrépido norteafricano que, sobre un elefante, c...

Based on an extraordinary collaboration between Steve Forbes, chairman, CEO, and editor in chief of Forbes Media, and classics professor John Prevas, Power Ambition Glory provides intriguing comparisons between six great leaders of the ancient world and contemporary business leaders.• Great leaders not only have vision but know how to build structures to effect it. Cyrus the Great did so in creating an empire based on tolerance and inclusion, an approach highly unusual for...

According to the ancient sources, Hannibal was nine years old when his father led him to the temple at Carthage and dipped the young boy's hands in the blood of the sacrificial victim. Before those gods, Hannibal swore an oath of eternal hatred toward Rome.Few images in history have managed to capture and hold the popular imagination quite like that of Hannibal, the fearless North African, perched on a monstrous elephant, leading his mercenaries over the Alps, and ...