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Welcome to the History Extra Podcast, fascinating historical conversations from BBC History magazine

and BBC History Revealed.

Of all the enemies the Roman Empire faced in its centuries-long history, one name stood

out above all others, Hannibal. In the late third century BC, the Carthaginian general

came dangerously close to destroying Rome and utterly reshaping the history of the world.

Hannibal's campaigns were a pivotal episode in the Punic Wars, three conflicts between Rome

and Carthage that spanned from 264 to 146 BC. And those wars are the subject of today's

everything you want to know episode. Our expert is Professor Philip Freeman of Pepperdine University

and putting your questions to him was Rob Atter. Rob began by asking Philip for a brief

rundown of the key events of the Punic Wars.

The Punic Wars were actually a series of three different wars between Rome and the city

of Carthage in North Africa. They took place over a century. The first war was about

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