Tom Holland

We love a terrible note on the rest is history. We also like to torment and tantalize our listeners by leaving them hanging at the end of series. And that's what we've done. We've had season one. We've had season two. Season three will be coming. Brilliant. So next week we will be back with something very different.

We love a terrible note on the rest is history. We also like to torment and tantalize our listeners by leaving them hanging at the end of series. And that's what we've done. We've had season one. We've had season two. Season three will be coming. Brilliant. So next week we will be back with something very different.

We'll still be in Italy, but we will be in the golden age of Renaissance Florence for the story of the Medici. But Tom, thank you so much for that. A blood curdling tour de force. I think it's fair to say. And never has there been so much dust in a rest is history podcast. Dust and blood. dust and blood we love it on that bombshell thank you very much and goodbye everybody bye bye

We'll still be in Italy, but we will be in the golden age of Renaissance Florence for the story of the Medici. But Tom, thank you so much for that. A blood curdling tour de force. I think it's fair to say. And never has there been so much dust in a rest is history podcast. Dust and blood. dust and blood we love it on that bombshell thank you very much and goodbye everybody bye bye

We'll still be in Italy, but we will be in the golden age of Renaissance Florence for the story of the Medici. But Tom, thank you so much for that. A blood curdling tour de force. I think it's fair to say. And never has there been so much dust in a rest is history podcast. Dust and blood. dust and blood we love it on that bombshell thank you very much and goodbye everybody bye bye

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Slowly the soldiers moved with lagging steps, dreading that they had crossed the spreading globe only to pass into forbidden realms in defiance of nature and heaven. But Hannibal was having none of it. Not for him any terror of the Alps, not for him any horror at the snows. "'Shame on you!' he cried, to weary of fame and despair of the favour of the gods.

Slowly the soldiers moved with lagging steps, dreading that they had crossed the spreading globe only to pass into forbidden realms in defiance of nature and heaven. But Hannibal was having none of it. Not for him any terror of the Alps, not for him any horror at the snows. "'Shame on you!' he cried, to weary of fame and despair of the favour of the gods.

Slowly the soldiers moved with lagging steps, dreading that they had crossed the spreading globe only to pass into forbidden realms in defiance of nature and heaven. But Hannibal was having none of it. Not for him any terror of the Alps, not for him any horror at the snows. "'Shame on you!' he cried, to weary of fame and despair of the favour of the gods.

"'Shall we retreat after all we have won, before snow-capped mountains, cowed and beaten by cliffs?' "'No, comrades, no. Onwards we go. Believe me that soon we shall be scaling the walls of Rome, that mightiest power, and the steep hill of Jupiter.' at which all his men cheered and found their courage restored. So that was Silius Italicus. The Punica is the name of that poem.

"'Shall we retreat after all we have won, before snow-capped mountains, cowed and beaten by cliffs?' "'No, comrades, no. Onwards we go. Believe me that soon we shall be scaling the walls of Rome, that mightiest power, and the steep hill of Jupiter.' at which all his men cheered and found their courage restored. So that was Silius Italicus. The Punica is the name of that poem.

"'Shall we retreat after all we have won, before snow-capped mountains, cowed and beaten by cliffs?' "'No, comrades, no. Onwards we go. Believe me that soon we shall be scaling the walls of Rome, that mightiest power, and the steep hill of Jupiter.' at which all his men cheered and found their courage restored. So that was Silius Italicus. The Punica is the name of that poem.

He wrote it almost 300 years after Hannibal's invasion of Italy in the reign of the Emperor Domitian. Tom, it's the longest surviving Roman poem. It was beautifully read, I thought. I was magnificent. Thank you. That's kind. Yeah, really good. It's a shame I had to prompt it, but I'll take it all the same. Now, it's proof, isn't it, of just how deeply...

He wrote it almost 300 years after Hannibal's invasion of Italy in the reign of the Emperor Domitian. Tom, it's the longest surviving Roman poem. It was beautifully read, I thought. I was magnificent. Thank you. That's kind. Yeah, really good. It's a shame I had to prompt it, but I'll take it all the same. Now, it's proof, isn't it, of just how deeply...

He wrote it almost 300 years after Hannibal's invasion of Italy in the reign of the Emperor Domitian. Tom, it's the longest surviving Roman poem. It was beautifully read, I thought. I was magnificent. Thank you. That's kind. Yeah, really good. It's a shame I had to prompt it, but I'll take it all the same. Now, it's proof, isn't it, of just how deeply...

The experience of fighting Hannibal and the personality of Hannibal were seared into the Roman imagination. And actually, you get the sense there of their massive respect for Hannibal. You know, he's not a... We talked last time about whether or not they see him as a supervillain. Maybe they do, but they clearly see him as a serious person, as somebody worthy of admiration as well as fear.

The experience of fighting Hannibal and the personality of Hannibal were seared into the Roman imagination. And actually, you get the sense there of their massive respect for Hannibal. You know, he's not a... We talked last time about whether or not they see him as a supervillain. Maybe they do, but they clearly see him as a serious person, as somebody worthy of admiration as well as fear.

The experience of fighting Hannibal and the personality of Hannibal were seared into the Roman imagination. And actually, you get the sense there of their massive respect for Hannibal. You know, he's not a... We talked last time about whether or not they see him as a supervillain. Maybe they do, but they clearly see him as a serious person, as somebody worthy of admiration as well as fear.