Hannibal's oath against Rome
237 BCE* · Event
Before sailing for Spain, Hamilcar Barca has his nine-year-old son swear at the altar never to be a friend to Rome — or so Hannibal himself told a Seleucid king decades later. True or crafted, it is the story the ancient world believed: this war was raised from childhood.
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