![]() ![]() Hannibal tells the Romans in 215 BC to leave Rome for the north and never to return. Then he proposes an ancient custom that has not been used in many years: the choice of going into exile. In Hannibal’s Children, during the Second Punic War, Hannibal offers the weakened Roman army two choices: to attack and be slaughtered, or to surrender. John Maddox Roberts, author of the SPQR mystery novels set in ancient Rome, attempts a daring feat of alternate history. Hannibal was one of the few people to actually defeat the Roman army in more than one battle, and it was not until the final battle of Zama in the third century BC that Hannibal was finally defeated, and Carthage overthrown in the Third Punic War. Anyone who has learned some Roman history knows that the only person that ancient Rome admits to having feared is the Carthaginian general Hannibal. ![]()
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