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Carthage's First Punic War: The Naval Disaster That Shaped Hannibal

Carthage's First Punic War: The Naval Disaster That Shaped Hannibal

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Before Hannibal crossed the Alps, before Cannae, there was a war that nearly destroyed Carthage while it was still the undisputed queen of the Mediterranean. The First Punic War raged for 23 years — from 264 to 241 BCE — and it was fought almost entirely at sea. This episode looks at the catastrophic naval battles that broke Carthage's maritime supremacy: Mylae, where Rome's corvus turned boarding into a butcher's game; Ecnomus, the largest naval battle of the ancient world; and the final humiliation at the Aegates Islands, where a bankrupt Carthage watched its last fleet sink. We meet Hamilcar Barca — Hannibal's father — as a young commander in Sicily, fighting a hopeless war on land while his city's navy burned. And we trace how the loss of Sicily, Sardinia, and a crushing war indemnity planted the seeds of the Barcid revenge that would shock Rome a generation later. For anyone who knows Hannibal's story but not the war that made him. #FirstPunicWar #Carthage #PunicWars #HamilcarBarca #BattleofMylae #BattleofEcnomus #BattleofAegates #Rome #NavalHistory #Corvus #Sicily #Polybius #AncientWarfare #MediterraneanHistory #RomanRepublic #CarthaginianNavy #History #FexingoHistory Keep every episode free: buymeacoffee.com/fexingo
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