Scipio EP1: The City That Had Never Fallen: How Scipio Took Carthago Nova in One Afternoon, 209 BC

The water pulled back at noon. Carthago Nova had never fallen. It fell. But the story starts earlier — on the worst afternoon in Rome's memory. Scipio is eighteen years old. He counts the dead. He does not run. Everything after is downstream of that one minute. ──────────────────────────────────── 0:00:00 The water pulled back at noon 0:00:26 Chapter 1 · The Forum Before the Laughter — 216 BC. Cannae. Scipio at 18. 0:22:08 Chapter 2 · What Defeat Left Behind — Hispania. A different kind of war. 0:42:47 Chapter 3 · The Tide the City Forgot — The lagoon. The fisherman. The plan. 0:59:14 Chapter 4 · The Hour the Water Pulled Back — The assault on Carthago Nova. 1:21:13 Chapter 5 · A Man on the Wall — The city that had never fallen. Fallen. 1:39:09 Writer's Note 1:39:40 Next time: Africa ──────────────────────────────────── Roman Nights is long-form English audio history for background listening — evenings, commutes, sleep. No ads mid-episode. No cliffhangers. Just Rome, told properly.