Punic Nightmares

Dan Carlin's Hardcore History Archives episodes 21-23 about the Punic Wars

Was it geopolitics or simply bitter hatred that fueled the ancient bloodbaths known as “The Punic Wars? Dan highlights the unimaginable things people experienced during this intense face-off between Rome and Carthage.

Darkness, horror, war and carnage dominate Part 2 of the Punic War trilogy as Hannibal rampages across Italy and pushes Rome to the brink of doom.

In one of the great displays of resiliency in all history, the Romans refuse to buckle under murderous Carthaginian pressure. Instead they recover, defeat and destroy Carthage, and conquer most of the Mediterranean.

Keywords: Roman, republic, Carthage, Africa, Barca, Hannibal, Scipio, Punic, Sicily,war, ancient, history, Greek, Fabius, Hamilcar, Rome, classical, antiquity, Polybius, Cannae, killing, war, Scipio, Rome, Livy, Macedonia, Greece, Africa, Hasdrubal, Zama, Numidian, Punic, Wars, Cato, Appian, Barca, Spain, Sicily, Archimedes, Syracuse C Show Notes:
1.“The Rise of the Roman Empire” by Polybius
2.“War” by Gwynne Dyer
3.“The War with Hannibal” by Livy
4.“Warfare in Antiquity” by Hans Delbruck
5.“The Fall of Carthage” by Adrian Goldsworthy
6.“Carthage” by Serge Lancel
7.“Hannibal” by Serge Lancel
8.“Roman Warfare” by Adrian Goldsworthy
9.“Hannibal” by Sir Gavin De Beer
10.“Rome in Africa” by Susan Raven
11.“Cannae” by Victor Davis Hanson (Appeared in Military History Quarterlymagazine Vol 2, Number 4, 1990)
12.“Cannae: The Experience of Battle in the Second Punic War” by Gregory Daly
13.“The Western Way of War” by Victor Davis Hanson
14.“The Ancient Mediterranean” by Michael Grant
15.“Roman History” by Appian
16.“A History of the Ancient World” by Chester G. Starr
17.“Caesar and Christ (The Story of Civilization III)” by Will Durant
18.“Plutarch's Lives (Modern Library Classics)” by Plutarch
19.“The Complete Works of Tacitus” by Tacitus
20.“The First Punic War” by J. Lazenby
21.“The Anatomy of Error: Ancient Military Disasters and Their Lessons for Modern Strategists” by Barry S. Strauss and Josiah Ober
22.“Armies of the Macedonian and Punic Wars 359 BC to 146 BC” by Duncan Head
23.“The Face of Battle” by John Keegan
24.“The Punic Wars: Rome, Carthage, and the Struggle for the Mediterranean” by Nigel Bagnall