TOTAL WAR: Rome vs Carthage the First Punic War

[@PrincipledUncertainty]

The history sector on KZbin has been inundated with soulless and highly inaccurate AI channels. This is perfectly paced and riveting. Thanks.

[@23StudiosSports]

Wish I could like this 100 times. So true.

[@Jacob-sb3su]

Especially the youtube shorts. God its so annoying

[@user-ye1ku7jo9o]

The Rest is History is my favorite podcast and I try to turn on all of my friends to it. You make learning history most enjoyable and entertaining. I wish that you had been my college professors 40 years ago!

[@ajsdfkajsdf3219]

Amen!

[@bucksolo703]

Love love love this show and all the history being taught from it. Its in my top 2 podcast right now. Waiting for a Caligula series on here.

[@anlemeinthegame1637]

"History's greatest monkeys soon." What a cliffhanger! Thanks for the great episode on Carthage.

[@rawntech_7820]

No. 1 Tom Holland fan here. Big up Dommie Sanders as well.

[@jeremyleidy5566]

Been a while since i read up on the punic wars. Thanks guys.

[@Chadhogan111]

Intellectually nourishing, thank you

[@genishugasvila6800]

NEXT YEAR? oh pleaaase don't let me in pain for so long! I beg you to continue what is for me the greatest of all antiquity events! thx for this great podcast! learning a lot fo english too I'm from Spain😋

[@bucksguineapigtalks]

Brilliant Podcast - have been listening right from the start - informative, thought provoking and at times very funny. I have learnt loads of fascinating facts and details. Congrats to everyone involved in it.

[@mediapartners9950]

Another brilliant pod. Loving the series 👏🏻👏🏻👏🏻👏🏻

[@davepannekoek1562]

Lads the school glee with which you discuss these historical events both brings them to life but also conveys your passion for history....... The sooner we hear your description of Hannibal in Italy the better.... Especial looking forward to the way you describe the great defeats of the Roman armies by Hannibal and also the tactics of Quintus Fabius Maximus Verrucosus in his cunning tactical opposition of Hannibal

[@pecansandies9521]

Only recently started this pod and I've been eating up every episode as soon as it comes out

[@BugMateo]

Fantastic stuff... thank you guys!

[@Docleegb]

Love the channel, but find there are several skips, and rewinds in the podcast version. That was true for the end of the 70’s British politics series (which the final episodes were not included on YT) and this Carthage series. Would love to see some tighter editing. I love it so much just don’t want to miss anything.

[@chittzz3397]

Great series!! Keep em coming

[@tommonk7651]

Great mention of the Battle of Midway. To me, the most interesting battle of WWII, certainly of the Pacific theater....

[@bigbluebuttonman1137]

The Punic Wars are my favorite. I think the Third One can hardly be called a war, but oh well. People got to remember, these guys didn’t have ATACMs to solve their problems…lol. This level of warfare with this depth and scope at this time for the durations we’re talking are an extreme testament to the human condition.

[@McToaster-o1k]

This is so good!

[@johnhaynes9910]

Excellent as always :)

[@cwhalen38]

Best history channel on YT!

[@louisburke8927]

Lovin' this series ❤

[@BenTrem42]

Fabulous stories well told! thanks much p.s. _Hannibal was a long-lasting childhood hero_

[@bannedagain1483]

Phenomenal. God bless you both.

[@JBLyell]

Hey loved the video, my father put me on to it. I have had a great interest for many years in Hannibal Barca with the only things I knew about his father being that he fought in the first Punic war, made Hannibal make that vow and that he was a general in Spain, so I found all of this information on the first war as well and Hamilcar as well as the context it gives to Hannibal's war very fascinating so thank you.

[@reecemccullough4829]

Incredible finish to the episode. Holy moly!!

[@AlchZdot]

Also, Roman politics had a big part in Regulis’ decision outside Carthage. I’d like to see more details about that peppered in, we’re hearing half the story. I do really appreciate you all and enjoy your work

[@23StudiosSports]

Fantastic listening here guys. Thank you.

[@airingcupboard]

I love this podcast. Wonderful.

[@martinhodgson1996]

I've become so enthralled in your podcast. I think of both Tom and Dom as soon as I wake up. I hope my wife never sees this. 😂

[@jtob9574]

You guys are my heroes

[@christinemorton63]

Absolutely marvellous

[@andrewthornber7783]

These a brief and entertaining sweeps of history. If you want that kind of scholarly minutiae and analysis, read a book!

[@jamesshepherd3171]

Great work. Loved the Carthage series.

[@brussoni]

This was so interesting. I love to learn about Carthage.

[@shawnchinnery9436]

Love the podcast!

[@sowelie1]

My favorite podcast

[@td2456]

The Claudii gens taking dibs on Sicily. How patrician of them.

[@tropics8407]

Outstanding 👏👏

[@MirandaBarrca]

I am a huge fan of carthaginian history.

[@milztempelrowski9281]

Yes!

[@jonathonjubb6626]

Love it!!

[@king_cobra5492]

Thank you

[@bkohatl]

Assyria and Rome were both small towns in the midst of much larger kingdoms who didn't mind throwing their weight around at Rome and Assur's expense. Both after being conquered and ravaged by their neighbors the Mitanni for the Assyrians and the Celts for Rome in 390 BC became determined, never again. Both did one other thing they learned warfare and its tactics from their conquerors. Much like Julius Caesar adapting tactics for fight King Juba and Labienus innovations of mixing lightly armed troops among cavalry between the battles of Ruspina and Thapsus. I suspect Labienus was shocked that Caesar used Labienus's own tactics against him, successfully. That is the flexibility that led to both companies empires.

[@eddiesimone3568]

Although I love your channel, about the corvus: I learned that it was used only for a very short time.

[@benlee9647]

Good voice east to listen to

[@eshaibraheem4218]

Marvellous!

[@alicewangui3288]

I love this podcast.

[@faroqali1539]

Can we have some episodes on the crusades

[@mwarangethenjoguu7849]

Apart from Polybius, what other references especially on the mercenaries war? Thanks

[@davidbanks4168]

Would love to see either Mark Felton or Stephen Kotkin as guests on the Rest is History

[@robertalpy]

Trajan expanded the empire to it's furthest reaches. Id hardly say that trajan was like Hadrian would be...conservative and "what we have we hold."

[@Bman8989]

Excellent history

[@locusta4662]

Even today in Italy to do something apocalyptic or unthinkable is called waging a Punic war . What really surprises reading about those 3 wars is the resilience of those two populations in comparison to other ancient civilizations . Often Carthage is compared to the Arab phoenix which rise up again and again from her own ashes and Romans were no less tenacious than Carthaginians . If one take a look to what happened to the Achaemenids after Gaugamela (possibly the other greatest conflict happened after the end of the bronze age ) we find even more absurd those 3 wars and the obstinacy Romans and Carthaginians showed . Do you think that , with the same tenacity showed by Romans and Punics , would Persians have won against Alexander?

[@catalinmihaidobre2391]

Maps. Would be great to have maps inserted.

[@benhunt4089]

Hannibal Barca, my favourite ancient general!!

[@johnking6252]

Sacred Chickens ! I must remember that. 🤪🤪🤪

[@frasegfunk9790]

Awesome!!

[@Tyrkir100]

Makes me ponder ... Wasn´t the issue at the outbreak of WWI Self Defence ?

[@theycallmefilip]

When I envisioned the future as a child, I never imagined being giddy with excitement about watching 2 men talk for an hour. But here we are 😂

[@KevinKindSongs]

Do we have any idea if the original sources are accurate? They are nice stories.

[@craigfairweather3401]

Barca a nickname that means Lightning and he is a Sophet ( translatedcJudge). This seems an allusion to the Hebrew Judge Barak. Barak (Hebrew: בָּרָק, bārāq, "lightning"), is a masculine name of Hebrew origin. It appears in the biblical Book of Judges as the name of the Israelite general Barak, who alongside Deborah led an attack against the forces of King Jabin of Hazor.

[@nathaniel4334]

Next year?!?!?

[@markmorris7123]

I wish they would make a blockbuster punic wars epic movis trilogy.

[@straightfrom]

Why cite Flaubert? It's historical fiction 🤷

[@AnthonyBrown12324]

So the same as last season. So loose at the back. You can't expect the centre backs to pick up all the loose opponents.

[@markkringle9144]

Regulus probably was sentenced to death by Snu-snu. That's why he went back to Carthage.

[@palamabron2481]

Can't believe you're cutting it off there instead of going into Carthage's downfall.

[@neenaj365]

If I get another cat I’m going to call him Xanthapuss. Fun fact- the small bird Goldcrest’s Latin name is Regulus Regulus.

[@thanksfernuthin]

Why did Dominic think it was the greatest reversal of fortunes in human history? Did he know other facts or context that don't bear out? The wind was torn from his sales pretty dramatically.

[@TheAnadromist]

Just when we thought it was safe to go back to Tunisia.

[@ceilingsintheireyes6288]

Next year!? Noooo please stay with the ancient history

[@waynemcauliffe-fv5yf]

The cruelty of the ancient World rivals ours

[@dustyfairview9062]

I realized it was silly to want a different blank faceless podcast to enjoy so i put a blanket over the tv.

[@Waterhorse1]

OMG Donald Trump must be listening to this (he keeps rambling on about Hannibal)

[@andrewmasseo51]

Thank god for dinosaurs for giving us Tom Holland

[@adrianmbutnariu]

A sacrifice to the Algorithm

[@petersellers9219]

I would be very upset if part of Yorkshire were taken by foreigners, places like Leeds, Huddersfield, Bradford and Sheffield....... Wait they have already been taken.

[@allensacharov5424]

cartago delanda es

[@mickmacgonigle5021]

Mamas boys!

[@douglasfielder4621]

You are getting very quiet.

[@teddyjackson1902]

Again, the problem with this podcast is the attempt to overlay history with a veneer of contemporary progressive judgment. It’s completely ignored that the integration of Roman society and governance gave rise to its “unlimited manpower” and indomitable will. Enfranchising the people politically and hinging the livelihood of the governing bodies on the decisions they made helped create the Roman juggernaut. We lose sight of this in service of casting decisions in the narratives recited by these two. What were the deficiencies of Carthage and their social organization? What values caused their reliance on mercenary forces? Why pretend that they weren’t a militaristic imperial power merely governed by a different ethos? We know that they waged wars of expansion and dominion. It’s in the historical record. The Iberian campaigns from which Carthago Nova emerged are well documented along with the rest of their conquests in the wake of the First Punic War. So many avenues of discussion are shut down with the good guy/bad guy narrative foisted on us by dumbed down modern scholarship.

[@ianbanks2844]

I agree with your criticism. The contemporary left wing bias is a continuing disappointment and feature of this channel . To me, it really sums up how the " intellectual " life and norms of this country are so warped by the hard , totalitarian left .

[@colincampbell4261]

​@@ianbanks2844delusional comment.

[@colincampbell4261]

Watch the previous videos, then comment.

[@DeanMurray08]

Next year?? What’s the point in that 😂🤣

[@KvltKrist]

There's been a lack of genital mutilation as of late.

[@thadtuiol1717]

Looking at Sicily today, you have to wonder why anybody bothered...

[@ropeburnsrussell]

I just saw Tom Holland on Philomena Crunk and I was so disappointed. Hes not smart at all, he couldn't answer any of her questions. Feet of clay, really....

[@RaffieFaffie]

Well she did pose very tricky questions that only 0.000001.00.010.0111% of the population would know

[@ropeburnsrussell]

@@RaffieFaffie but he's supposed to be a history man.

[@RaffieFaffie]

@@ropeburnsrussell yes now that I think of it, it's rather unforgivlablu