Scipio Asked Hannibal: Who's the Greatest General? #history

Added: 2026-05-26

[00:00:00]Hannibal once dined with the man who destroyed him.

[00:00:03]Both were [music] exiles now, Scipio Africanus and the Carthaginian he had broken at Zama. The story goes, Scipio asked, "Who was the greatest commander in history?" Alexander the Great first, Pyrrhus of Epirus second, then himself third.

[00:00:22]Scipio pushed back. He had beaten Hannibal. Hannibal's reply, "Had he won at Zama, he would have placed himself above Alexander, above all of them."

[00:00:33]What do you think?

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