065 - Carthage vs. Syracuse

The Podcast History Of Our World by Rob Monaco

Mar 5, 201524:00Society & Culture

The confrontation between the Hellenic and the Punic world was inevitable, but the battleground would be Sicily, a land quite near and dear to me! It's here that the balance of power would sway back and forth in a seemin...

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