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Hannibal: Across the Map

219 – 201 BC · from New Carthage over the Alps, and back to Africa

Chapters

• 0:03 Spain
• 1:01 The march
• 2:09 Italy
• 6:51 Africa

On-screen text

• 0:05 New Carthage · spring 219 BC Historical record · Polybius 3.13–15
• 0:30 Saguntum · 219 BC · an eight-month siege Historical record · Polybius 3.17; Livy 21.7–15
• 1:03 Across the Ebro · summer 218 BC Historical record · Polybius 3.35
• 1:15 The Rhône · September 218 BC Historical record · Polybius 3.42–46
• 1:40 The Alps · October 218 BC The Institute's interpretation · Polybius 3.50–56; Livy 21.32–37
• 2:11 The Ticinus · November 218 BC Historical record · Polybius 3.65
• 2:29 The Trebia · December 218 BC Historical record · Polybius 3.72–74
• 2:51 Lake Trasimene · June 217 BC Historical record · Polybius 3.82–84; Livy 22.4–7
• 3:02 Fabius' delay · 217 BC Historical record · Polybius 3.87–94
• 3:28 Cannae · 2 August 216 BC Historical record · Polybius 3.107–117; Livy 22.44–50
• 3:54 Capua · 216 BC Historical record · Livy 23.2–10
• 4:46 Tarentum · 212 BC Historical record · Polybius 8.24–34
• 5:05 Hannibal at the gates · 211 BC Historical record · Livy 26.7–11
• 5:50 Bruttium · 207–203 BC Historical record · Livy 28.46; Polybius 3.33
• 6:52 Zama · October 202 BC Historical record · Polybius 15.5–16; Livy 30.29–35
• 7:24 The peace of 201 BC · 201 BC Historical record · Polybius 15.18

Sources

Historical record: Polybius, Histories 3, 7–9, 15 · Livy, History of Rome 21–30 · Polybius 3.13–15 · Polybius 3.17; Livy 21.7–15 · Polybius 3.35 · Polybius 3.42–46 · Polybius 3.65 · Polybius 3.72–74 · Polybius 3.82–84; Livy 22.4–7 · Polybius 3.87–94 · Polybius 3.107–117; Livy 22.44–50 · Livy 23.2–10 · Polybius 8.24–34 · Livy 26.7–11 · Livy 28.46; Polybius 3.33 · Polybius 15.5–16; Livy 30.29–35 · Polybius 15.18

Tradition / scripture: Livy 21.1: the boy Hannibal's oath

The Institute's interpretation: Polybius 3.50–56; Livy 21.32–37

Benjamin West, The Oath of Hannibal (1770), Royal Collection — public domain · Barcid quarter shekel, Spain 237–209 BC (CNG) — public domain · Mariano Teruel, Siege of Saguntum — public domain · G. B. Tiepolo, Quintus Fabius Maximus before the Senate of Carthage — public domain · Remake by Hathor Studio after Henri-Paul Motte, Hannibal crossing the Rhône (1878) · depth-parallax motion by Hathor Studio · Carl Emil Doepler, The elephants crossing the Rhône, 218 BC — public domain · Remake by Hathor Studio after Nicolas Poussin, Hannibal crossing the Alps · depth-parallax motion by Hathor Studio · J. M. W. Turner, Snow Storm: Hannibal and his Army Crossing the Alps (1812), Tate — public domain · Hannibal crossing the Alps into Italy, Ward, Lock (New York) — public domain · Scipio Africanus the Elder, engraving — public domain · War elephant, terracotta, Pompeii (2nd–1st c. BC), Naples MANN; photo Carlo Raso — public domain dedication · Statue of Fabius Maximus 'Cunctator', Vienna; photo schurl50 — public domain · Battle of Cannae, plan (after the US Military Academy maps) — public domain · Lodovico Pogliaghi, Roman women in the temple of Mars after Cannae — public domain · T. A. Dodge, plan of the first battle of Capua (1891) — public domain · The 'Capuan bust', photo Fratelli Alinari — public domain · Hathor Studio render (our own CPU) · Bernardino Cesari, Hannibal and Scipio Africanus — public domain · Cornelis Cort after Giulio Romano, The Battle of Zama (1567), Art Institute of Chicago — public domain · Remake by Hathor Studio after Bibliothèque nationale de France (Monnaies, médailles et antiques), public domain · Remake by Hathor Studio after Norbert Schnitzler, photograph of a model, 2008. CC BY-SA 2.0 · Territories: Cliopatria, Seshat Global History Databank (CC BY 4.0, github.com/Seshat-Global-History-Databank/cliopatria) — simplified and recoloured. Base map: Natural Earth (public domain). · Soundtrack: synthesized ambient (wind, drone, water) — CC0, made by SoapBox

Sound: synthesized ambient (wind, drone, water) (CC0 — made by SoapBox). Made in 980 s of CPU.