Hannibal Barca crossed the Alps with war elephants, invaded Italy, and spent fifteen years defeating every Roman army sent against him — including the catastrophic Roman loss at Cannae, still studied in military academies today. He came closer to destroying Rome than any foreign commander in history, yet he ultimately lost the war and died in exile, hunted by the empire he had terrorized.

This episode follows Hannibal from his childhood oath of hatred against Rome through his legendary Alpine crossing, his string of devastating victories on Italian soil, and the strategic failures that let Rome survive and eventually destroy Carthage forever.

• The childhood oath Hannibal swore to his father to never be a friend of Rome
• The audacious Alpine crossing with elephants that shocked the Roman world
• The Battle of Cannae —  ...