Robert Ellis is Principal of Regent's Park College, Oxford, and a member of the Faculty of Theology and Religion in the University of Oxford. He is the author of Answering God: Towards a Theology of Intercession.

Zusammenfassung
The controversy over the route taken by Hannibal, the Carthaginian army and his famous elephants in their crossing of the Alps to attack Rome in 218 BCE is long-running, but a particular scholarly dispute arose with the publication of this book by classicist Robert Ellis in 1853.

Inhalt

Preface; 1. Introduction; 2. Polybius' narrative of Hannibal's march; 3. Discussion of the narrative of Polybius; 4. Discussion of the narrative of Polybius (cont.); 5. Discussion of Polybius' narrative of the events which took place at the summit of the pass; 6. Improbability of Hannibal's having crossed the Alps by the Great or Little St Bernard; 7. The route of the Mont Cenis; 8. The route of the Mont Cenis (cont.); 9. Livy's narrative of Hannibal's passage of the Alps; 10. Examination of objections brought against the Mont Cenis; 11. Antiquity of the pass of the Mont Cenis; Appendix.