I SHIP IT. I SHIP IT. This is an awesome post and you should feel awesome. :)
Also, hey, I can believe that they faked their own deaths -- I read a book about Mithridates (who is also a fascinating figure) where at the end the author concluded that Mithridates ran away with his lover, who changed her name to the masculine version of it and became his historian.
I like your observation here that Scipio owes everything to Hannibal, even his name, because, wow, is that ever true. It's a good thing they had each other to fight, because, really, their brilliance would have been wasted on anyone else.
And sometimes I wonder what the world would look like now if Hannibal had kept going and taken Rome...
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Also, hey, I can believe that they faked their own deaths -- I read a book about Mithridates (who is also a fascinating figure) where at the end the author concluded that Mithridates ran away with his lover, who changed her name to the masculine version of it and became his historian.
I like your observation here that Scipio owes everything to Hannibal, even his name, because, wow, is that ever true. It's a good thing they had each other to fight, because, really, their brilliance would have been wasted on anyone else.
And sometimes I wonder what the world would look like now if Hannibal had kept going and taken Rome...