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Available content about Hannibal. Counts refer to the entries displayed on this page, not complete coverage of their life or reign.
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Carthage and the Punic Wars 814 – 146 BC · 40
Part of Dan Snow's History Hit · Dan Snow on history's defining moments; only the Roman episodes are indexed
Part of The Ancients
How a nine-year-old swore an oath and spent the rest of his life keeping it, and what the Barcid position in Spain actually was.
Sixty-five minutes on Hannibal before Italy: the oath sworn at nine, the years campaigning in Spain, and the siege of Saguntum that handed Rome its war.
Part of The Rest Is History
Part two, sixty-one minutes on the Battle of Ibera and on Scipio in Spain, which is where the Punic War was settled while everyone was watching Italy.
Part two, fifty-eight minutes on 218 BC and on the harder question underneath it: why the Republic could lose army after army and still field another one.
Part four, fifty-eight minutes on 216 BC and on the double envelopment that military academies still teach, from the point of view of the men in the middle of it.
Part three, fifty-six minutes on the crossing and its price: Hannibal reached Italy with a fraction of the army he set out with, and won anyway.
With Louis Rawlings
Louis Rawlings on 211 BC, when Hannibal rode to the walls of Rome to break the siege of Capua and the Romans kept besieging Capua anyway. Fifty-five minutes.
Part one, fifty-five minutes on Hamilcar rebuilding Carthaginian power in Spain and on the son he raised inside that project.
Part of Ithaca Bound · Andrew Schiestel on the Mediterranean, 2021 to 2022; only the Roman episodes are indexed
Part of Ancient Greece Declassified · Conversations that take in Greece and the wider ancient world; only the Roman episodes are indexed
December 218 BC, the first full battle after the Alps. Forty-five minutes on how Hannibal got a Roman army to cross a freezing river before breakfast and then ambushed it.
Part of The Hellenistic Age Podcast · The three centuries between Alexander and Actium; only the Roman episodes are indexed
Forty-two minutes on a mid-December battle in northern Italy, which almost nobody in the ancient Mediterranean fought, and on why Hannibal wanted one.
Part of Tides of History
Forty minutes on Zama in 202 BC, and on the fifteen years between Cannae and it when Hannibal was never again that close.
21 June 217 BC, an entire consular army caught in fog against a lake shore with nowhere to go. Louis Rawlings on the ambush that killed Flaminius. Thirty-nine minutes.
Thirty-nine minutes on the best question in the whole war: Rome lost the battle of the century and did not sue for peace. The answer is in how the Republic was put together.
Part of Ancient History Hound · Ancient Blogger on Greece, Rome and antiquity for every level; only the Roman episodes are indexed
Thirty-eight minutes on the crossing itself, in the teeth of an Alpine autumn with tens of thousands of men and a baggage train that had to go over the same passes.
Part two with Louis Rawlings, thirty-two minutes on the year between Trasimene and Cannae, when Fabius refused battle and Rome lost patience with him.
Thirty-one minutes on Cannae in 216 BC, where a smaller army enveloped a larger one and Rome lost more men in a day than on almost any day since.
Twenty-eight minutes on the crossing of 218 BC: out of south-east Spain, through hostile Celtic country, over two ranges, with elephants. Which pass he used is still argued over.
Part of HistoryMarche
Part twenty-three of an animated march through the Second Punic War, on the year Hannibal broke camp at Capua and rode for Rome to pull the siege off his allies. Twenty-four minutes, and the maps carry it: two consular armies splitting and closing again is movement that defeats prose.
Part of The History of Rome · Mike Duncan, 179 episodes, 2007 to 2012
Twenty-two minutes on the first fight at Capua in 212 BC, animated, part two of the sequence. Hannibal takes the field and the siege lines close behind him anyway.
Part of Kings and Generals · Military history in campaigns and battles; only the Roman episodes are indexed
Part of Understanding Rome · Agnes Crawford, licensed guide in Rome
Part of Ancient Warfare Podcast
Twelve minutes on whether Hannibal re-equipped his army from Roman dead after Trasimene and Cannae, and what that would mean for how he fought.
Ten minutes on the supply problem nobody puts in the paintings: an elephant eats well over a hundred kilos a day, and the Alps in autumn provide none of it.
Ten minutes on the famous meeting at Ephesus where Hannibal ranks the great generals and flatters Scipio at the end. Murray Dahm weighs the sources and the travel times.
Nine minutes on the counterfactual, answered by someone who has read the campaign closely enough to say where the decision points actually were.
Nine minutes on Hannibal's logistics, which is the part of the campaign that decides it and the part the story always skips.
Seven minutes on a fair question from a listener: if the legion beat the phalanx, how did Hannibal keep winning. Murray Dahm on what the manipular system did and did not guarantee.
