Adrian Goldsworthy
Hannibal Barca of Carthage never did like Rome. In fact, his father, Hamilcar, instilled in him a loathing of the rising Roman Empire when he was just a boy. When he felt Rome violated an agreement that his brother in law, Hasdrubal the Fair of Carthage had made with the Romans after the First Punic War (Carthage's first defeat at the hands of the Romans), he put together a plan of attack. Hannibal, paired with the Roman Scipio, turned out to be the most influential commanders in the Second Punic War.
Premises of the Ebro Treaty and Carthage vs. Rome
The Ebro Treaty was upheld by both parties for a short time after Hamilcar Barca of Carthage's defeat by the Romans in the First Punic War. This treaty allowed Carthage the right to develop and patrol any land to the south of the River Ebro, which lies a short distance to the northeast of modern Barcelona (which was at the time in Iberia, now modern Spain), but it also specified that the Carthaginians were not to cross the river. Rome offered in the treaty that it would refrain from land acquisition south of the Ebro, and thought itself generous by granting Carthage the right to utilize any area at all not already under Carthaginian control (the land south of the Ebro). Adrian Goldsworthy explains in his book The Punic Wars that Hannibal felt the treaty limited his right to explore even unconquered territories (north of the Ebro).
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