To me, it seems like the First of the Punic wars was nothing more than, for lack of a better term, a cock fight. The Carthaginians went in so the Romans had to go in. The Romans won because they had a bigger fleet, so the Carthaginians had to send in a larger fleet. Which caused the Romans to send in more, causing the Carthaginians to send in more. And so on, and so forth. To say that niether side knew how to withdraw just proves that this fight was purely for their ego. I found the outcome of the first war strange. The Romans had no “direct interests” in Sicily, but in the end of the war, they got it.
The second war was purely revenge. You would have thought the Romans would have learned that going to war with Hannibal was a bad idea, even if they did win in the end of the second war too. I don’t really understand how he won the Battle of Cannae… If he was almost surrounded, how was his army suddenly surrounding the Romans?
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