067: Rome and Carthage Between the Punic Wars

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🗓️ 13 December 2021

⏱️ 48 minutes

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The period from the signing of the Treaty of Lutatius in 241 until the siege of Saguntum in 219 is often passed over by those learning about the Punic Wars, but it is integral to understanding how the Romans and Carthaginians went to battle once again. Rome fought to stem the tide of Celtic warbands invading from Northern Italy, whereas Carthage faced an existential crisis with the Mercenary War (241-237) before its rescue by Hamilcar Barca. Hamilcar and his clan then expanded into Spain, building a powerbase which enabled his son Hannibal to challenge the Romans for supremacy in one of the greatest conflicts in antiquity. Show Links Episode Notes: (https://hellenisticagepodcast.wordpress.com/2021/12/13/067-rome-and-carthage-between-the-punic-wars/) Episode 067 Transcript: (https://hellenisticagepodcast.files.wordpress.com/2021/12/067-rome-and-carthage-between-the-punic-wars-transcript.pdf) Mithridates VI of Pontus with Flashpoint History: (https://youtu.be/nACLiBWUvGQ) A Reader's Guide to the Seleucid Empire: (https://hellenisticagepodcast.files.wordpress.com/2021/08/seleucid-reading-guide-pdf-2.pdf) A Reader's Guide to Ptolemaic Egypt: (https://hellenisticagepodcast.files.wordpress.com/2021/11/ptolemaic-reading-guide-pdf-1.pdf) Social Media: Twitter (https://twitter.com/HellenisticPod) Facebook (www.facebook.com/hellenisticagepodcast/) Instagram (https://www.instagram.com/hellenistic_age_podcast/) Twitch (https://www.twitch.tv/hellenisticagepodcast) Show Merchandise: Etsy (https://www.etsy.com/shop/HellenisticAgePod) Redbubble (https://www.redbubble.com/people/HellenisticPod/shop?asc=u) Donations: Ko-Fi (https://ko-fi.com/hellenisticagepodcast) Amazon Book Wish List (https://tinyurl.com/vfw6ask)

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0:00.0	Hi there.
0:09.0	You're listening to the Hellenistic Age podcast.
0:13.0	Episode 67, Roman Carthage between the Pununec Wars.
0:32.0	After 23 years of seemingly endless warfare, the signing of the Treaty of Lutatius in 241 was intended to cease hostilities between the Romans and the Carthaginians and bring an end
0:37.1	to the first P Punic War.
0:38.9	No other ancient conflict was fought so continuously for so long, a point stressed by the historian
0:44.3	Bolibius of Megalopoulos, and while Rome surely came out of the affair of the dominant power,
0:49.7	both sides were militarily and financially exhausted. Yet, little over two decades later, hostilities resumed, resulting in the second conflict
0:58.6	that was just as destructive, if not more so, than the one before.
1:03.2	Like with the First and Second World Wars of the 20th century, the Second Punic War,
1:08.2	wage between the Roman Republic and Carthage from 218 until 201 BC, overshadows its predecessor.
1:14.8	This is perhaps due to the abundance of sources we have for the second round of fighting.
1:19.4	In addition to the work of Polybius, who also chronicled the war for Sicily,
1:23.4	we also have the colorful, if overly patriotic account of Livy,
1:27.4	a Roman historian who greatly
1:28.8	valued and relied upon the missing books of Polybius on the war.
1:32.5	The moralist and biographer Plutarch wrote several lives on the men who were active figures
1:36.8	during the time, though noticeably omits its two most well-known characters.
1:41.6	Hannibal Barca, the brilliant son of the premier Carthaginian
1:45.0	commander in Sicily, Hamilcar Barca, and Publius Cornelius Scipio, better known as the
1:50.8	Scipio Africanus, who ultimately led Rome to victory at the Battle of Zama in 2002.
1:56.7	Rightly so, the Second Punic War is viewed as a major turning point for the ancient world.
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