Professor Josephine Quinn

Wow.

OK, we don't know, but when Rome asks Carthage to indict him, he's outlawed and he does flee to Antiochus' court at Ephesus.

So, you know.

And he does then play kind of a minor role in Antiochus' war with Rome.

But then the Romans defeat the Seleucids and, again, they demand that they give up Hannibal.

And he escapes again.

He goes further east and he ends up in the kingdom of Bithynia on the Black Sea.

That is not what happened.

Reportedly, he always carried poison with him in case he was captured by the Romans.

So he seems to have died by suicide sometime around 182 BCE.

It's quite the life, Darren.

Thank you.

OK, so after all these men and all their battles, I want to talk about a Carthaginian woman who played her own important role in the war between Carthage and Rome by marrying not one but two Numidian kings and in the end proved braver than both of them.

So Sophonisba was an aristocratic Carthaginian woman, Sophonbal in her own language.

We hear that she was beautiful, learned, musical, and she was the daughter of the general Hasdrubal Disco, who we've seen being defeated by the Romans in 203.

And what we're told is that in 206,

She had been engaged to the local Numidian king, Massinissa, and he controlled the inland region beyond Carthaginian territory.

So a lot of what's now Tunisia.

The Carthaginian Senate, though, ordered her to marry his rival Syphax instead.

And Syphax ruled most of what's now Algeria from Kirtan on Constantine.