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A History Of: Hannibal and the Punic Wars is a biweekly biography of everybody's favourite Carthaginian general. We follow Hannibal throughout his campaigns as well as looking at the Punic W...
The final episode. We analyse the Second Punic War, and why Carthage lost. We then look at what happened to Hannibal and Scipio after the wa...
In this week, our penultimate episode, we cover the battle of Zama. Scipio finally fights Hannibal. This brings to a close the Second Punic...
This week we cover the Battle of the Great Plains, and close the Italian theatre of the war as Hannibal finally goes home.
This week the African war really gets underway. Scipio, Laelius and Masinissa duel with Hasdrubal and Syphax around Utica, while things go b...
This week Scipio invades Africa and Mago invades Italy.
This week we wrap up events in Sicily, but the main focus is the epic senate debate between Fabius and Scipio.
This week we watch Scipio tie up all the loose ends in Spain before moving back to Italy to take the consulship.
This week the podcast returns to something resembling a normal schedule! We watch Scipio be victorious over Hasdrubal, who fled to Italy, an...
This week we continue Scipio's adventures in Spain, focusing much of the episode on his brilliant capture of New Carthage. We also include a...
This week we travel back to Spain to look at an incident between Nero and Hasdrubal, a prelude to the Metaurus. We then introduce Scipio Afr...
This week we have the aftermath of the Metaurus.
This week we have the Metaurus.
This week we have the build up to the Metaurus.
This week we look at the aftermath of the death of Marcellus, before moving on to 207 and the looming menace in the north of Italy that was...
This week we have a jam-packed episode. Fabius takes Tarentum, we have the consular elections of 208, the death of Marcellus and, most impor...
This week we bring the narrative into 209, looking at the eventful election of Fabius and Fulvius to the consulship and the three day battle...
This week we finally return to Italy. We recap just where we were in the narrative in 211, look at the consular elections for 210, the siege...
Hannibal is back! This week we cover the war in Greece, often called the First Macedonian War. We see just how things faired as the Romans,...
This week we turn to the fifth theatre of the war, Greece. We have a high speed historical overview, before getting into the narrative with...
This week we are joined by token Welshman Tom Vaudin for Let's Talk Number 4 - Teutoburgerwald. As my friend Tom is something of a specialis...
This week we finish of the story in Syracuse and Sicily for the moment with the fall of Syracuse.
In a TheHistoryOf Podcast special we answer the question of Spartan Collapse.
This week we look at the beginnings of the Siege of Syracuse, including some inventions of Archimedes. We also see Marcellus' campaigns arou...
This week we look at the combined Roman-Syracusan attack upon Leontini, the tricks of Hippocrates and Epicydes, yet another revolution in Sy...
This week we continue to look at Syracuse, finding out what Epicydes and Hippocrates do once they become magistrates. Marcellus also rejoins...
This week we focus on Syracuse. The spirit of revolution takes hold of the city, leading to more intrigue, more assassination, and two unlik...
This week we head over to the Mediterranean islands. We look at the war of Titus Manlius against Hampsicora in Sardinia, the death of Hiero...
This week we take events in Spain to 212. We cover the beginnings of Roman involvement in Africa, introduce Masinissa, cover the sad end of...
This week we go back to Spain and cover the years 216 to 214.
This week we enter 211 covering three big events: Hannibal's March on Rome, the 'Battle' of Rome, and the Fall of Capua.
This week we follow a series of battles throughout 212, some won by Carthaginians, others by Romans. The real development is that the Romans...
This week we follow Hannibal's attempts to take Tarentum, where something finally goes right for Hannibal, in addition to troublesome tax-fa...
This week we follow Hannibal's attempts to take Tarentum, taking the story into 212. Also included is a plug for new show Talking History Po...
Hey guys. Long time listener and friend of the show Benjamin Ashwell has launched a new podcast with his brother, Adam, about the Italian un...
This week we follow the march of the war through 214. We find out who the consuls for that year were, compare Hannibal's tactics in taking a...
This week we return back to Hannibal in Campania. Things do not go well for the Carthaginian general as he faces trouble at Cumae and Nola a...
This week we turn our attention to the east, to Macedon, and to Philip. Featuring: The full Carthaginian-Macedonian alliance treaty. How man...
This week we see Rome broken as news of another crushing defeat arrives in Rome from the north. In addition we tell the story of Petelian re...
This week we see Hannibal move all around Campania, trying desperately to get some allies. Sadly, no one wants to be Hannibal's friends and...
A PSA. London's date changes from 8th June to 23rd of June, and two new podcasts are announced. A History Of: Alexander the Great - Remaster...
In this episode unlike any other, I go more into 'historian mode' than you've ever seen before. I spend 50 minutes trying to answer the ques...
We celebrate three years of TheHistoryOf by recording our first three ever episodes, the beginning of 'TheHistoryOf - Nationalism in Ireland...
In this last regular episode before I take a break for the exam period, we journey over to Carthage to see Hannibal's brother ask the Senate...
This week Rome is betrayed! We take a look at Hannibal's journey to Campania, he fails to take Naples, but luckily for him, there is a trait...
This week we have a second episode title which is numbers, anyone able to work out what this is a reference to? This week we deal with the h...
This week we have a second introduction, as well as looking at what events after Cannae. We see Fabius and the Senate impose some order on R...
This week is a departure from normality. For a week we mostly break out of the narrative, and go into historian mode. We take a look at the...
This week we return to Sicily, another theatre of the war where the Romans are getting the better of the Carthaginians. We take a look at th...
This week we return to Spain to catch up on what was going on in the Mediterranean elsewhere than Italy. As Gnaeus and Publius Scipio direct...
This week we are rejoined by Hannie Kirkham for Let's Talk Number 3: Marching on Rome! We get into the ins and outs of this great historical...