GUERRAS CELTIBERICAS, LAS

For over a hundred years, two great expanding powers clashed on the Iberian Peninsula: Rome and Celtiberia. As Rome had just subdued Carthage, it set its sights on Hispania, a rich land with the vast resources needed by the Republic as it expanded across the Mediterranean. This is the story of an inevitable clash. Like two locomotives heading toward each other on the same track in a silent film, what was going to happen was predictable. The impact was brutal, and Rome ultimately prevailed, in part due to its enormous capacity to raise troops. One legion after another was sent to Hispania, a development that became a nightmare for Roman youth. The Celtiberians were neither as barbaric nor as savage as Rome wanted to make them out to be. They were sophisticated people fully aware of the situation in the Mediterranean. And militarily as advanced as the sons of the Tiber, who were forced to put all their resources on the table to subdue, by hook or by crook, every single Celtiberian city. We only know what Rome wanted to tell us, but this work goes further, reading between the classic lines a history deliberately concealed.