The writing I selected was a paper submitted to my history professor detailing the accounts of the 2nd Punic War in Carthage. This was a comment on the fairly powerful passage from “The Punic Wars” by Adrian Goldsworthy, which focused on the conditions and treatments of the slaves in the Punic War. They were given barely enough food to survive, and they made to march many miles. Civilians were very sympathetic to the slaves, but if they tried to feed the slaves, the food would be stolen by the governors. The only nomininlazation in the whole paper was in the last sentence in the last sentence. “Rome took a lot in the slave wars, Slaves, Civilians sympathetic to their cause, Leaders of insurrection, but they could never take the idea of freedom
