Tom Holland

He marches inland, making for the town near which Scipio has his base.

And this town, Dominic, is called Zama.

So Hannibal is approaching Zama.

Scipio is in situ.

These two commanders drawing near to each other.

They've never met before, but it becomes evident the nearer they come that actually they're really keen to meet with the other one.

You know, peace feelers have gone out, you know, and the justification for this is that they're going to have one last attempt at negotiation.

But I think basically, you know, they both know that this is very unlikely to result in a peace treaty.

They just want to meet each other.

Yeah.

I mean, he'd already offered terms that didn't involve unconditional surrender, but now that Carthage is carrying on the fight, he feels, well, you know, it's surrender or nothing.

And clearly Hannibal's terms are unacceptable to Scipio and Scipio's terms are unacceptable to Hannibal.

And so the interview comes to an end.

There will be no more negotiations.

Consequentially, battle is now inevitable.

And this means that the two greatest commanders of the age are about to meet in the ultimate clash of titans.

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