Carthage vs. Rome: Total War (TRIH ep 424, part 4)
264 BCE · Resource
Tom Holland and Dominic Sandbrook narrate the course of the First Punic War and its brutal aftermath. Using Polybius and later classical sources, they trace the conflict’s origins in Sicily — Messina and the seizure by Campanian mercenaries — through major engagements at Akragas and the sea victory at Mylae, to Rome’s risky invention of the corvus and decisive naval campaigns culminating in the Roman invasion of…
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Around 264 BCE
- Second Punic War (218 BCE)
- Wars of the Diadochi (322 BCE)
- Qin Shi Huang unifies China (221 BCE)
- Reign of Alexander the Great (336 BCE)
- Han dynasty (202 BCE)
- Maurya Empire (322 BCE)
- Alexander the Great (356 BCE)
- Punic Wars (264 BCE)
- Euclid's Elements (300 BCE)
- Reign of Ashoka the Great (268 BCE)