570. Hannibal: The Invasion of Italy (Part 3)
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Slowly the soldiers moved with lagging steps, dreading that they had crossed the spreading globe only to pass into forbidden realms in defiance of nature and heaven. But Hannibal was having none of it. Not for him any terror of the Alps, not for him any horror at the snows. Shame on you he cried, to weary of fame and despair of the favour of the gods. Shall we retreat after all we have won before snow capped mountains, cowed and beaten by cliffs?
No, comrades, no. Onwards we go. Believe me, that soon we shall be scaling the walls of Rome, that mightiest power and the steep hill of Jupiter, at which all his men cheered and found their courage restored. So that was Silius Italicus. The Punica is the name of that poem.
He wrote it almost three hundred years after Hannibal's invasion of Italy in the reign of the Emperor Domitian. Tom, it's the longest surviving Roman poem. It was beautifully read, I thought. That was magnificent. Thank you, that's kind.
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