Status Updates From The Fall of Carthage: The P...

3 battles, 3 wins by total envelopment, 100,000 dead Romans, 1/3 of the Senate dead, 3 dead consuls, 10% of the eligible fighting population dead.

At Cannae, 50,000 dead Romans in ~5 square miles. That's 10,000 dead men per square mile.

Hannibal man. Insane.

Hannibal's INSANE man...such a dawg. He just always has the initiative. And anyone that has played a competitive game or sport knows how impossible that is. It's CRAZY work.

I think I'm at the morning of Cannae, and the tension is INSANE. It's about to go down.

Hearing these Punic war stories from the boots-on-the-ground perspectives is so wild.

Hanno, Hannibal, other Hannibal, Hamilcar, Hasdrabal... Carthage was lacking some creativity when it came to guy names.

First Punic War was a generational throw by Carthage. They were just, like, objectively better, and then kinda just stopped trying hard and lost.

Hannibal, Son of Hamilcar
Hannibal the Rhodian
Hanno
Hamilcar
Hanno
Hasdrabal

Carthage was lacking some real creativity when it came to male names...

Final chapter is getting fascinating as Adrian Goldsworthy describes how Rome changed so much during and following these wars. They became the dominant mediterranean power by far, effectively controlling all of Carthage’s old territories.