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I bet someone could make a graphic novel about this

We got an hour long lindybeige history video. We are so back

So basically, Hannibal was human? Flawd but brilliant, intelligent but violent, a soldiers general and his enemies worst nightmare. A hero to some and a villan to others... Just like every "hero" from antiquity?

Now this is the kind of content I absolutely want to watch.

Finally some of his good old fashioned content!!!

Poor Hannibal, he was just trying to destroy Rome is all.

while i do think some of his decisions were quite Graphic, you cant underestimate his Novel tactics

He's a hero in the old Greek sense. His story and the drama around him are awe-striking. With the many years past what he did, it's one of those things where you can sit and read about the guy and get pulled in. And him being a complicated or dangerous man doesn't matter in the older sense. Heracles was completely terrifying in the og mythology.

Stating the obvious here, but 5% of the population means that one in twenty Roman citizens died at Cannae. Statistically, if you were a Roman citizen, if you hadn't been one of those who died, you probably personally knew at least 3 or 4 people who died at that battle. That's gonna mess you up mentally.

I suppose my "search of Hannibal" content has finally come to an end... for now

3:24 "You've got to pay your mercenaries, everyone" best advice I've heard today 🤣

FINALLY Lloyd again uploads an hour of historical spergery that we all know and love him for

Finally a long form Lloyd

As someone who measures heroes purely on their ability to march elephants over the alps: I'd say he's up there with the best of them.

"Written by an actual human" I can't believe that this has become a necessary qualifier 😭

50:48 This is something that really bothers me in movies and *especially* video games. In action movies/most games we often have the attitude that only important characters count as real people. I especially hate when games have you kill an army's worth of soldiers/security guards/"thugs" for token gameplay then present you a "moral" choice about what to do with the boss who's actually responsible. Can you imagine if your boss was secretly a child trafficker or something and some action man kicked down the door, shot you and all your coworkers, cornered your boss, then had the gall to say, "no, this isn't justice, I'm not a murderer, I have to bring you in."

Dont know if I would call him a hero, especially after learning that he ate the liver of that census taker with fava beans and a nice chianti

I’m ‘in search’ of all graphic novel comments

This reminds me of the IQ chart meme, where you have the idiot at the bottom of the IQ scale say "Hannibal is my hero", the median intelligence midwits say "Hanibals is a complex character and should be examined in context", but the genius IQ guy says "Hannibal is my hero" again.

Generally 1 person's hero is another person's villian. It would greatly depend on whether you ask Carthage or Rome.

These are the videos I follow this channel for! Long, rambly video of a historian about a historical topic based on facts with a ting of personal inputs. Thank you for uploading again, Lindy.

Campbell's hero journey: 1. Pick out specific style of story about coming of age 2. Bash some famous stories until they fit 3. Ignore all other heroic stories and myths 4. Profit! And of course, the pagan ancient world was looking for heroes to be ancestors to whom one sacrificed and built altars. Or appeased because they might be angry.

The audacity

I didn't expect you to have the nerve to publicly utter the name "hannibal" until your book comes out

Where is the VOTE ?

So basically, this can be distilled as "he's not a heroic figure because he lost in the end." But that just makes his story seem tragic, almost romantic. I'm not sure if this thesis holds up. You could argue any heroic figure fails in the end because all glory is fleeting.

15 years at war, in enemy territory, being able to maintain that size and diverse of an army, and winning is freaking insane

@28:30 Why did Hannibal do that out of respect for Marsellus? -Because... he URNED it.

I'll be buying the graphic novel as soon as it is released. I've been following you for years, and I can't wait to give some more back for all the entertainment you've given us. Cheers Lindy.

One of my favorite -- if gruesome -- passages from "Ghosts of Cannae": "By way of approximation we can consider each Roman weighed 130 pounds-they were lighter than modern men. Then there would have been well in excess of *six million pounds of human meat* left to rot in the August sun-the true fruits of Hannibal’s tactical masterpiece, at least for an air force of vultures." O'Connell, Robert L.. The Ghosts of Cannae: Hannibal and the Darkest Hour of the Roman Republic (p. 222). Random House Publishing Group. Kindle Edition.

The literary hero is an ideal that very few real people live up to. This is why true heroes in fact are outstanding.

I'm so early the video doesn't even have sound

Great video! 🤗 However, since you announced your novel, I started and finished 6th form, graduated from university, moved to Italy, worked there for a year, moved to Germany, and worked here for the past 2 years. Still no novel though. 😢😢😢

I am glad you are still making such content Lloyd.

Looks like "Hannibal ad portas" means same thing in Latin and Italian. Suspected that in Lindy's world Italian mothers switch to Latin when stressed. By 220 BCE Romans were encroaching on Spain and Barca's silver mines. He had plenty of reasons to go against them.

love to see another long lecture!

LONG time watcher, first time commenter: this is the type of topic I love to hear you discuss (history),and your views of it. It was what first drew me to your channel, and got me to subscribe. Please carry this on! Thank you! Regards from Canada 🇨🇦

Love your videos, Lindybeige!!! Videos like these have awakened in me a new love for history like no other, please continue with the amazingly interesting and informative content!

Recently started binge watching the history series. Amazing to find a new one out right now! Wonderful stuff.

Nothing better than an Lindy story

Brilliant Lloyd, back to the kind of video that made you so well loved. Keep 'em coming.

Goddammit, Lloyd! You put a one-our video out the minute I'm going to bed? I guess I'll have to stay up now!

so glad youve done another one of these videos again!

Love your hour long history lecture videos, Lindy. Great stuff.

It's a real indictment of human nature that we treat people with good stories as good people. (Edit: not a comment about Hannibal specifically. Alexander "the Great" on the other hand...)

Great to have Lindy back! He has made far too few "Talking about history to the camera" videos this year.

Great video! Thanks for your hard work, Lyod. Have a great week, everyone.

Thank you a thousand times! I started watching you when your fire arrow video came out. Your my favorite KZfaqr I miss the history. Again thanks!

I genuinely thought, that Hannibal was not a person, but rather a graphic novel...

I like this channel so much. Been watching it in and out for 4 years. I absolutely loved the earlier videos as much as the newer ones.

Finally, another lengthy historical video from Lindybeige ! I love these.

I dunno, I thought he was particularly nasty in The Silence of the Lambs…

I had other plans this evening. They are ruined now as I’m going to sit here and enjoy hearing your opinion on Hannibal.

Your videos are so easy to understand and follow, you explain things nicely that actually make sense, that’s why your my fav channel to both watch and listen.

This is the sort of content where you really shine Mr. Lindybeige. Thank you!

About time. Literally and figuratively.

Something quite wrong with those casualty numbers as a percentage of population. For the Battle of Towton, 11,000 dead out of a (actual) population of 3.3 million is 0.3%, not 1%. For the figures of the Battle of Cannae, if 60,000 is the number dead and that were 5% of the population, that would mean the population of the Roman Republic was only 1.2 million. This is almost certainly an undercount. The estimates that I've seen suggest 4 or 5 million people in Roman Italy at the time. Not to mention their other colonies. So the actual casualty rate at Cannae is probably more like 1% to 1.5%.

Hannibal must have been extremely charismatic that he was able to hold so many different ethnics together.

Yes!!! Some Lindy history I have been waiting for this day for so long.

By 'bad things', he means they do a Number 6 (Blazing Saddles fans will recall).

He also created such hatred that Rome went back later to crush Carthage.

Glad to see your classic hour long historical vids again, it's why I subscribed originally. Keep it up, you're among the best of the historytubers.

i’ll always admire Llyod’s ability to talk so long without cutting the camera

We are back with the hour long history lessons! I really missed those! With the risk of sounding like a spoiled brat: If I might be so bold and suggest to maybe also discuss Zama at some point (besides the one on if it happened). Thanks for the vid Lloyd, that will get me through monday.

Welp save to watch later, I know what I'm listening to at work tomorrow

I needed this on a dreary Monday morning. Thank you!

Love these long videos, always great!👍

Finally! A long monologue just between you and the camera, just what I’ve been missing! Thanks Mr. Beige

What happened to that comic you were doing about the punic wars? I spent over 100$ 8+ years ago and i aint got shit.

As Italian I say this: never underestimate the subtle and twisted brain of Italian people, we managed to survive decently on this peninsula surrounded by an ancient sea we insist to call "ours", since immemorial ages. That is, we have developed (perhaps by stealing it from our neighboring Greeks) a discreet art of living, what the French call savoir faire, which has taught us the concept that the more illustrious and powerful your enemy is, the greater the merit of having defeated him, that is the reason for which in Italy you can find many great scholars absolutely in love with Hannibal Barca and his glorious exploits. So yeah, Hannibal was a hero, a real damn hero, the best. A side note as devote Ligurian follower from Janua: please consider that the name of the land North of Tuscany was/is Gallia Cisalpina and this means that we, the Cisalpine Gauls & the Ligurians I mean, were with Hannibal Barca at Trebbia river, at Cannae and Trasimeno lake! So we might even say that in these lands, the Esperia marshes I mean, actually we have a lot of very good "political" reasons to confirm that yeah actually Hannibal was really a .. cough! cough! .. nothing! Sorry! Please forgive me! .. ROMA VICTRIX!

Yesssssss!! I've been waiting for history videos for years!

A great video! Thanks for making it.

The irony of promoting shortform in an hour long vide 😂

I can’t find the vote comment so I’ll put it here. Yes, I would tentatively call him a hero. I generally don’t value war or generals in the ancient world. The Punic wars were an incredible waste of life. Carthage wasn’t in existential danger at the wars start so Hannibal wasn’t acting in defense. So Hannibal’s career choice doesn’t win him many points compared to a scientist, kindergarten teacher, fireman, doctor, ect. But I would still call him a hero. He seems to possess all the qualities of one, had he be put in a situation where he was needed. If my country was under threat, Hannibal is precisely the sort of man I want to help.

i have two phones, i can hear the audio on one of them but not on the other lloyd is my favorite youtuber ever man this is awesome

We want more of this please!!!

What happend to lindy who are you, why didn't this imposter go on an hour long tangent!( Great video thank you! )

You wou would be hard pressed to explain to many Americans that Hannibal was not a Muslim. Or that British people are not Roman.

Something I think is worth mentioning about Cannae: the methods. At Cannae, 60000 died to swords and spears. At the Somme it was done with machineguns, rifles, artillery and such. Can you imagine how *brutal* that must have been? How traumatic that may have been even for the victors?

Good start to the week

Lindybiege been the goat for 10 years

Thanks!

Ancient history and a long video. I missed you so much!

That was one helluva high effort sponsor panel.

Hannibal reminds me of Saladin. As an Arab interested in European history, I find that Europeans have a admirable ability to add honorable or chivalrous enemies to their pantheon of cultural symbols, Hannibal and Saladin come to mind in this category. I struggle to find such examples of respected enemies looking back at Arab and Islamic history. There is a lot of respect for the courage and hardiness of the crusader soldiers in the histories, but no crusader leader is really a household name. The mongols are remembered with horror but not respected or admired.

Oh man I hope he posts a version of this with audio

Love these longer videos

I really enjoyed the advertisement but this go around. High level of quality and classic lindybeige cheek

I'd say he accomplished some heroic deeds even of he wasn't too heroic himself.

What's the difference between Leon and Bond? The simple answer is: who they work for. They both apply the same skillset. As far as hero or villain. It depends on point of view. To the soldiers he paid and kept alive for 15yrs behind enemy lines, he was definitely a hero. Maybe not to their wives but... Yet the Romans wouldn't have seen him as a hero, he was definitely a villain to them. And still is. The same goes for the Romans, Gauls, Celts, Britons. Hero and villain are relative terms that cannot be properly considered from only a backwards view. To me he was an excellent leader and the progenitor of modern guerrilla warfare, but since I've never met him (not likely to either, unless I get the time machine working!!) I couldn't say if he was a hero or a villain. The Italians in my family tree may think him a villain, but may also view him as a hero for taking on Rome as we were rebels from the start. As may the Germans, Gauls and Bretons there too!

Please Lloyd, more long-format videos like these!

0:10 That portrait was done in his lifetime. The artist is a family friend

54:08 On Rome being the baddies, I wonder how much a need to replace the working age men lost in the War against Hannibal pushed Rome to increase their number of slaves?

WAKE UP EVERYONE NEW LINDYBEIGE JUST DROPPED

Lindy is so back!

Awesome stuff Lindy! 👍

Where's the fucking comic, Lloyd?

Mr. Nicholas Lloyd, WHERE IS MY GRAPHIC NOVEL?

You put more work into this than the Graphic Novel I never received