In the wake of the First Punic War, Carthage soon found the loss of her Sicilian holdings and Rome's harsh indemnity to be the least of her problems. Nearly bankrupt after twenty-four years of continuous warfare, she could not afford to pay her mercenary army which was returning from Sicily. The crisis was further compounded by the blundering efforts of the Carthaginian leaders to defuse the situation, and what began as a pay dispute suddenly exploded into full-scale rebellion. What followed was a war which shocked even the Ancients with the brutality and savagery with which it was fought. A war without respite, without rules, and without mercy. A Truceless War.
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Episode 32 - All the Nations of the Earth: The Carthaginian Army under Hannibal
Episode 31 - Men of Iron: The Polybian Roman Legion
Episode 30 - How We Know What We Know (About the Punic Wars)
Episode 29 - The Barcid Revolution
Episode 28 - The Truceless War: Part II
Episode 26 - Hamilcar Barca and the End of Carthaginian Sicily
Episode 25 - Gridlock
Episode 24 - Spartans and Elephants
Episode 23 - Clash of the Titans
Episode 22 - Rome takes to the Sea
Episode 21 - At Acragas
Episode 20 - So It Begins
Episode 19 - Pyrrhus of Epirus: Part II
Episode 18 - Pyrrhus of Epirus: Part I
Episode 17 - The Senate and the People of Rome
Episode 16 - The Diadochi: Heirs of Alexander
Episode 15 - The Keltoi: The Terror of Civilization
Episode 14 - North Africa and Spain
Episode 13 - Carthage: Her City, Her People, and Her Soul
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