The ancient world, from the earliest times to 800 AD . ict consists of a series of three wars. The second is thedecisive struggle, to which, it is often said, the first and third standmerely as prologue and epilogue. THE FIRST PUNIC WAR (THE WAR FOR SICILY) 422. The occasion for the First Punic War was found in Rome conquered South Italy, she came necessarily intorelations with the Greeks in that island. Sicily is really a con- 366 ROMAN EXPANSION BEYOND ITALY [§422 tinuation of the Italian peninsula. It reaches to within ninetjrmiles of the African coast. A sunken ridge on the bed
The ancient world, from the earliest times to 800 AD . ict consists of a series of three wars. The second is thedecisive struggle, to which, it is often said, the first and third standmerely as prologue and epilogue. THE FIRST PUNIC WAR (THE WAR FOR SICILY) 422. The occasion for the First Punic War was found in Rome conquered South Italy, she came necessarily intorelations with the Greeks in that island. Sicily is really a con- 366 ROMAN EXPANSION BEYOND ITALY [§422 tinuation of the Italian peninsula. It reaches to within ninetjrmiles of the African coast. A sunken ridge on the bed of thesea shows that it once joined the two continents, and it stillforms a stepping-stone between them. For this middle land,European and African struggled for centuries. Eor two hun-dred years now it had been divided, Syracuse holding theeastern half, Carthage the western. While Rome was still busy with the Pyrrhic war, an eventhappened which renewed the conflict for Sicily and was finallyto draw Rome in as a chief actor. A band of Campanian mer-.
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