Hannibal: Rome's Worst Nightmare

Hannibal marched an army — war elephants included — over the frozen Alps to appear behind Rome's back, in Rome's own homeland, where it thought it was untouchable. For the next fifteen years the most powerful military on Earth could not remove one man from its own soil, and the story starts with a nine-year-old boy swearing an oath of hatred in a temple in Carthage. This is the Second Punic War the way it actually unfolded: the crossing of the Alps, the ambushes at the Trebia and Lake Trasimene, and the Battle of Cannae — still studied as the most complete tactical destruction in ancient military history — told as an inked comic, panel by panel. HOW THIS WAS MADE Every episode of The Drawn Past is researched, written, and directed by a human. AI tools help render the artwork in our inked house style and produce the narration performance; every panel and every line is human-reviewed before publish. The history is real — sources below. SOURCES • Polybius, The Histories (Books 3, 9–15) • Livy, The History of Rome (Books 21–30) • Richard Miles, Carthage Must Be Destroyed: The Rise and Fall of an Ancient Civilization (2010) • Adrian Goldsworthy, The Fall of Carthage: The Punic Wars 265–146 BC (2000) • Patrick Hunt, Hannibal (2017) THE BOOK BEHIND THIS EPISODE Patrick Hunt, "Hannibal" — [Amazon affiliate link] See every side of every story — Ground News: [affiliate link] THE DRAWN PAST — history, drawn in ink Subscribe:    / @drawnpasttv   Site: https://drawnpasttv.com Instagram / TikTok: @drawnpasttv New inked history every week. Next up: Shackleton — twenty-eight men trapped in Antarctic ice, and every one came home.