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How to Take Over the World

Scipio Africanus (with Alex Petkas)

How to Take Over the World

Benjamin Wilson

Self-improvement, Education, History

5853 Ratings

🗓️ 15 July 2025

⏱️ 70 minutes

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Summary

Alex Petkas joins to discuss the great Roman general Scipio Africanus, his relationship with Hannibal, his strategic military victories, and his legacy. 00:00 Introduction and Special Announcement 03:00 Scipio's Background 12:30 The Capture of New Carthage 19:30 Political Maneuvering and the Road to Consul 26:30 The North African Campaign 37:30 The Meeting of Hannibal and Scipio 43:00 Scipio's Political Career and Rivalry with Cato 50:00 Scipio's Legacy 56:50 Introduction to the Classical Society ---- Sponsors:⁠⁠⁠⁠ - The Classical Society.com - ⁠TakeoverPod.Supercast.com⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠ - All premium content for just $7/month ⁠⁠⁠⁠- ⁠GainsInBulk.com/ben⁠⁠⁠⁠ ⁠ - Use code Ben for 20% off instantized creatine and more⁠⁠⁠⁠ - ⁠Speechify.com/ben⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠ - Use code Ben for 15% off Speechify premium ⁠⁠⁠⁠- ⁠Founders Podcast⁠ ---- Stay In Touch - Sign up for our newsletter at ⁠takeoverpod.com⁠ - Twitter/X - ⁠@BenWilsonTweets⁠ - Instagram - ⁠@HTTOTW⁠

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0:00.0

I'm going to show you how great I am.

0:05.0

This is now, Siamis, Siam.

0:07.0

I just want to say from the bottom of me heart, I'd like to take this chance to apologize to absolutely nobody.

0:20.0

Hello and welcome to how to Take Over the World.

0:24.3

This is Ben Wilson and today I am joined by Alex Petkiss.

0:27.2

I brought an Alex to talk about Scipio Africanus, one of the great Roman generals of all time.

0:34.2

I've been doing this series on Hannibal and I was really struck by Skipio, both as a

0:38.9

person, his brilliance as well as the relationship that he has with Hannibal. But before we talk

0:45.5

about Skipio, we have an announcement of something that we're doing together. You want to tell the

0:50.7

people a little bit more about that? Yeah, we are starting something that we've been talking about in various ways for a long time.

1:00.4

It's called the Classical Society.

1:02.2

It's a business network.

1:04.1

It's a community of friends.

1:05.7

We want it to be the place for high agency people who love the ancients, who love greatness,

1:13.6

not just the ancient form of greatness, and want to do stuff together and go deeper on the things

1:23.6

that you and I talk about in our shows and this kind of great tradition of leadership,

1:30.3

statesmanship, achievement, and do it with people that are aligned and who also get it. So,

1:38.6

I don't know if you had anything to add on that point. I only semi-juffingly say that it's YPO for

1:43.4

people who love ancient Rome. Yeah, exactly. I think semi-jokingly say that it's YPO for people who love ancient Rome.

1:45.1

Yeah, exactly. I think, you know, this is something we've heard from a lot, from my audience.

1:51.6

I'm sure you hear from a lot of your audience as well. I would love to meet the people who are

1:55.9

also interested in this kind of thing. And so we're hoping the classical society is, you know, look, if you're

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