Tom Holland

He says, listen, I will be your coach.

And, you know, as you said.

I'm in.

I'm in.

Five-year contract.

There it is.

Yeah.

Unsurprisingly, the Romans are furious about this.

And so they send a delegation to Antiochus's court.

And it is said that attached to this delegation, not an official member of it, but going with the delegation, was Scipio Africanus.

And he had come to persuade the Seleucid king not to go to war.

Hannibal, of course, is busy urging him the opposite.

You know, the two old enemies, you know.

They are like, I guess, kind of people who'd played football in the World Cup or something and now are on posing asides in the Champions League or something like that, you know, as managers.

But it doesn't stop them.

So the story goes from meeting up again.

They're having a chat and Scipio asks Hannibal, which general do you think is the greatest of all time?

Hannibal answers Hannibal.

and giving his reasons as he does so, that obviously, in first place, is Alexander the Great.

And then he says, actually, I would also place Pyrrhus in second, and Pyrrhus was the guy who had invaded Italy a few generations before Hannibal's invasion.