The Rise of Hannibal
The Ancients
History Hit
4.7 • 3.5K Ratings
🗓️ 22 August 2021
⏱️ 66 minutes
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Summary
He was one of the greatest enemies the Romans ever faced. An excellent general and a larger-than-life figure, he led an army across the alps and dealt a series of crushing defeats upon the Romans on Italian soil. His achievements have become a thing of legend and his name has become immortalised. He was Hannibal Barca. Hannibal rests amongst antiquity's greatest generals, but how did he rise to become such a stellar commander, leading his men to incredible victories against the then dominant powerhouse in the Mediterranean? In this episode, Dr Louis Rawlings, Dr Adrian Goldsworthy and Dr Eve MacDonald explore the impressive ascent of the Carthaginian general to the status of one of the most famous military leaders in antiquity.
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| 0:00.0 | It's the Ancients on History Hit. I'm Tristan Hughes your host and in today's podcast |
| 0:08.9 | well we're doing something slightly different. This is quite new turf for the Ancients. |
| 0:14.9 | Because recently on HistoryHitTV access.historyhit.com we released a new documentary called The Rise |
| 0:23.7 | of Hannibal. All about the rise of Hannibal Barker from his beginnings, from his background |
| 0:29.5 | in North Africa to his immortalized crossing of the house. In that documentary we have three |
| 0:36.0 | stellar contributors, three stellar historians in Dr. Eve McDonald, Dr. Adrian Goldsworthy |
| 0:42.5 | and Dr. Louis Rulings. All three of whom have also previously been on the Ancients |
| 0:47.6 | podcast. And speaking of the Ancients in today's episode we have adapted that documentary |
| 0:53.8 | into an Ancients podcast with even more detail. Those bits which were cut out we've added |
| 0:59.8 | back in. Eve, Louis and Adrian are fantastic. We put a lot of work into editing this podcast |
| 1:07.4 | into getting it ready. Kudos in particular to Sophie, our editor who has been putting |
| 1:12.3 | in a lot of hours to get this podcast ready. So that further ado. Here's Eve, here's |
| 1:20.4 | Adrian, here's Luri and a bit from myself to tell the story of the rise of Hannibal. |
| 1:34.6 | Hannibal was born in the mid-third century BC, roughly 70 years after the death of Alexander |
| 1:40.8 | the Great. It's still the early stages of the Hellenistic period, but it's a time when |
| 1:47.0 | Turmall had seized the Western Mediterranean. Dr. Louis Rulings, a walking in cyclopedia |
| 1:53.7 | on all things Hannibal and the ancient Carthaginian military, explains the unstable world that Hannibal |
| 2:00.9 | was born into. Hannibal was born into a world war essentially. The Western Mediterranean |
| 2:07.3 | was a flame. The Romans and the Carthaginians were in the middle of a very long war, the |
| 2:12.6 | first Punic War, which started in 264 BC. Hannibal was born towards the end of that war, |
| 2:19.3 | probably around 2, 4, 7 BC. And his father is the prominent commander in the Carthaginian |
| 2:26.3 | overseas theatre, fighting at the Romans and assistly. So Hannibal was born into a world |
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