Tom Holland

Thank you.

And what painting are we looking at today?

And so what is it showing us?

Lots of you will be presumably watching this on video.

Some of you, if you're listening on your phone and you're able to stop and bring it up on your phone to have a look at it.

But I appreciate that some of you may be driving on motorways or whatever, and it would be dangerous for you to try and actually look at the picture.

So describe it for those who can't see it.

And also he looks a little bit like Vladimir Putin.

It's mischievous, doesn't it?

He looks like he's just chewed up a slipper or something.

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And if Cannae is the worst defeat in Rome's history, it is the greatest victory ever won by their enemies.

the Carthaginians led by their great general Hannibal, still only just 30 when he won that victory.

And it's the apogee of Hannibal's career.

It's also in a sense, the apogee of Carthaginian power, because from this point onwards, it's going to be downhill for Carthage and indeed for Hannibal.