Tom Holland

To a degree.

I mean, Hannibal at this point is still in Carthage.

And it is not 100% clear initially that Hannibal is in communication with Antiochus.

He almost certainly is.

But certainly the Romans...

feel that they cannot risk Hannibal teaming up with Antiochus.

They send a party of three senators to Carthage to say, look, hand him over.

Hannibal is informed that this is going to be happening

And he plays it very, very cool.

He kind of walks around the marketplace.

He doesn't let anyone know that he's planning anything.

And then the moment night falls, he slips out to a side gate where he's had a horse prepared for him.

He climbs onto it.

He gallops away to the coast where there is a fortress on a private estate of his.

And there's a jetty with a galley and he gets onto the galley.

There are men at all ready to take him away.

and he makes his escape from Carthage.

And this galley sails all the way across the Mediterranean eastwards, really kind of a journey back in history to the city of Tyre, the city from which the colonists who had originally founded Carthage came.

And he lands in Tyre, and he then goes overland up through Syria, and he ends up in the city of Ephesus on the Aegean coast of what is now Turkey.

And there he meets with Antiochus.