Greg Jenner
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Hannibal was now spending his 20s, like many lads do, annoying the Spanish locals, rampaging around with his buddies.
And then he falls out with Rome.
I mean, look, come on.
We know what's happening next.
But like, what's the sort of story here?
OK, so he's sort of poked the bull a little bit because you've kind of, the Romans are like, don't.
And he's like, I'm gonna.
We now get the Second Punic War in 218 BCE.
I mean, we get a proper famous Roman now, Scipio.
Can you tell us about him?
Darren, obvious question.
How would you convince a bunch of angry elephants to cross some mountains?
He's crossing from Spain to Italy, so he's going over the Alps.
He's going over the Pyrenees first.
The Pyrenees and then the Alps.
Along hundreds of miles of mountain pathway.