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@stollstoll1691

21 күн бұрын

Sir yes sir

@numbers8908

21 күн бұрын

Sir yes sir

@johndorilag4129

21 күн бұрын

Hannibal is overrated

@annunakim525

21 күн бұрын

more roman stuff pls sir

@Cba409

21 күн бұрын

If Hannibal cant take on Russia then Ukraine is truly doomed. I hope you all got the hint.

I bet someone could make a graphic novel about this

@richardcranium5329

21 күн бұрын

It’s been made lol

@MrHazz111

21 күн бұрын

And release it this century

@tomhirons7475

21 күн бұрын

@@richardcranium5329 when is it due out ??

@Quicksilver_Cookie

21 күн бұрын

@@tomhirons7475 Due? Like a few years ago, give or take.

@bogdanovist

21 күн бұрын

Bet they could try at least...

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

@olleolausson

17 күн бұрын

Are you a drainer?

@ramixnudles7958

15 күн бұрын

​@@olleolaussonI've got a 30' snake...

@olleolausson

15 күн бұрын

@@ramixnudles7958 Almost everyone I meet says that you are a pathological liar so I don't think so.

@ramixnudles7958

14 күн бұрын

@@olleolausson I'll nevertheless fix your drain. I will charge extra, and I will wear my extra-large plumber's jeans.

@junefranklin458

7 күн бұрын

@@olleolaussonu drane u gane

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?

@uncletiggermclaren7592

19 күн бұрын

You forgot to exclude King Arthur from that, but that was merely because you understood everyone would know you meant to. Right ?.

@Buggsy1061

19 күн бұрын

@@uncletiggermclaren7592 well apart from the tact that Arthur was al legend, and no one knows if the real man even existed, no o didn't forget to exclude him Arthur. He too was, if he ever took breath, human. And as such was flawed.

@uncletiggermclaren7592

19 күн бұрын

@@Buggsy1061 Ha , that sort of logic is fine for lessor men like Charlemagne and Washington, but you know perfectly well that you can't include Arthur in that group.

@sidtheslothwhy8706

18 күн бұрын

​@uncletiggermclaren7592 Keep our first president out yo mouff. George was the first man to rule the best country on earth. Keep your Hannibals and Arthur's we don't need them because we had G'd up Washington.

@uncletiggermclaren7592

18 күн бұрын

@@sidtheslothwhy8706 Well, enough people spoke well of the man at the time, even nominal "enemies" called him a Gentleman and the soul of Probity. I will grant you he was a Good man. But he was no King Arthur.

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

@georgebaggy

19 күн бұрын

Your words are quite illustrating

@Dexroid

19 күн бұрын

The way you describe it, I can almost see it with my mind eye. It's comical how clear you make it.

@Zakalwe-01

17 күн бұрын

Thanks for drawing my attention to this. I was wondering why my wallet felt so light while watching this video.

@SydneyCarton_dies

8 күн бұрын

Please don’t mention the war

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.

@leonardomarquesbellini

20 күн бұрын

Specially when you consider who's actually fighting. It's not a lottery that selects people at random, it's mostly people from a specific demographic that go die in wars, so for survivors from that particular demograaphy the relative impact is even greater. It's known Tolkien and Lewis were both WW1 survivors and (not so coincidentally) went on to become authors of great renown in Fantasy. But they weren't the only young people who, before the war, were interested in that genre and were in fact accompanied by many other prospective writers from the British universities' circles, most of which died there and never got the chance to write and find huge success like those 2 did. Similarly it's a macabre anecdote that the university of Istanbul took quite a few years to graduate its first medical doctor after the war even though students were allowed to resume studies where they had stopped, simply because almost every last student who had been enrolled in the medicine course when the war broke out died there ir were otherwise unable to resume studies, so the university needed to start everything from scratch again.

@lollerkeet

20 күн бұрын

It's not just Rome though - there were Latin allies also fighting. Going by the population of the city-state, rather than the greater confederacy, is a bit misleading.

@Leo-ok3uj

18 күн бұрын

That 5% being estimated as 20% of the adult male population

@khankhomrad8855

17 күн бұрын

Terrible, isn't it? It wasn't only Rome who blead, but also its allies. Lole Lindy showed, Rome and its allies had an incredibly deep manpower reserve and the willingness to keep going no matter the costs.

@cr-pol

17 күн бұрын

kzread.info/dash/bejne/q4aEu7uNmavTlM4.html

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

@VilleKivinen

21 күн бұрын

It would even be a great idea for a graphic novel.

@JohnM-cd4ou

21 күн бұрын

Yes, it feels like eons since he's done content like this

@davesmith7432

21 күн бұрын

You’re right! This is what YT is supposed to be

@jaymz6473

21 күн бұрын

I've skipped most of Lloyd's recent content if I'm honest. This is why I'm here.

@VilleKivinen

21 күн бұрын

@@jaymz6473 I've watched all his stuff ever since he made points about slings and Greek helmets, except for the Q&A videos. I'd certainly like to see more of these hour long lectures from him.

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

@smoothcast6940

16 күн бұрын

I swear that's exactly what I thought

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

@neilwu3912

15 күн бұрын

Russia: hold my vodka, where are my exploitable minorities?

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.

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.

@leonardomarquesbellini

20 күн бұрын

Heroes are fun because they're as good as fiction to us. Actually having yoir own real life caught up in the actions of people who go down in history probably feels a whole lot worse.

@doomdrake123

20 күн бұрын

My thoughts exactly.

@lc1138

20 күн бұрын

I deeply agree.

@svon1

15 күн бұрын

yeah in a Greek sense it makes sense but modern view, ah hell no, the wars he started for revenge are just nuts, and its not like "they killed my family" revenge, its petty "they gave us a harsh treaty" revenge after we had a war with them

@markmorris7123

15 күн бұрын

​@@svon1errr, petty?? Rome practically went to war and conquered the whole known world.. Hannibal had to go to war with Rome.. For eventually Rome would have brought the war themselves..Rome was a pure military state.

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

@vacuousbard6410

21 күн бұрын

Yeah. Those damn Romans sure hated fun, didn't they?

@lynneframe3390

20 күн бұрын

Victim then?

@joundii3100

20 күн бұрын

That's exactly what makes him a hero.

@SuperFranzs

20 күн бұрын

Good riddance! What have the Romans ever done for us?

@ASlickNamedPimpback

19 күн бұрын

@@SuperFranzs the aqueducts?

Finally some of his good old fashioned content!!!

@cr-pol

17 күн бұрын

it has also been a while since we have seen a Lindy dance on this channel.

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

@brenttrotter88

21 күн бұрын

These are his best videos. Nothing better than an hour long rambling on a subject.

@shurdi3

20 күн бұрын

I knew him for 7-10 minute long videos about "A point about" and weird rants about children smoking and saying no to a dance.

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

@technoman9000

19 күн бұрын

Verbs are dead

@FringeSpectre

19 күн бұрын

Welcome to the Information Apocalypse. In a very short time, you won't be able to trust ANYTHING you see in the media, or online in general. Unless you see it in real life, you simply won't be able to trust it. Pandora's Box has been opened, and there's no shutting it.

@max-zv7sf

14 күн бұрын

We are in the future, but it turns out that the future is awful.

@fransmars1645

14 күн бұрын

How do we know your comment was written by a human? Or this one?

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.

Finally a long form Lloyd

@craigrobbins2463

21 күн бұрын

He is a rather clever man though. His short form is very compelling too.

@Alfenium

20 күн бұрын

George Lloyd

@johnknox6023

20 күн бұрын

@@Alfenium what did you mean by this...

@niono1587

20 күн бұрын

I love me long form Lloyd

@The_Gallowglass

19 күн бұрын

Finally a long from Lloyd? That's what she said?

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.

@silver4831

15 күн бұрын

@@Embassy_of_Jupiter He's overplayed to make the Romans look stronger in the long run. This has always been obvious to me.

@diazinth

12 күн бұрын

@@silver4831 and/or give romans their rags to riches story, one of the many challenges they faced in their story, etc. Don't know how much he was overplayed though, because he obviously made an impression.

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

@joek600

16 күн бұрын

@@sassenspeyghel4155 not exactly cause they didnt pay in advance lol

@jhtar

11 күн бұрын

​@@joek600Some actually think they did by buying the first books...

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

@kanutahytomka4542

21 күн бұрын

its pronounced chianti

@dogwalker666

21 күн бұрын

Silly that's the wrong Hanibal, He was actually the leader of the A team, 😂

@P-Mouse

20 күн бұрын

maybe if it was a Malbec

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.

@tj-co9go

14 күн бұрын

really? that is so low. average american male weighs 197,9 pounds. which is over half more than the Romans weighed.

@ALEXBOWN

13 күн бұрын

​@@tj-co9go People who eat all grain diets without quality proteins do not grow tall.

@user-gl5dq2dg1j

11 күн бұрын

@@tj-co9go If I remember correctly the average US service man weighed in at about 150 lbs.

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."

@lukasg4807

21 күн бұрын

Like any of the batman games. The shit he does to the gaurds would definitely kill them, but taking out joker to save a bunch of lives is too far.

@stevenjohnson4190

21 күн бұрын

​@@lukasg4807davros calling the Dr for genocide when that was the pure intention of the darleks.

@Marwolaeth01

21 күн бұрын

Serves us right for working for a bad guy. I mean, come on, obviously we all know what happens in the lives of people we work with.

@olddirtybasterd-ex2vb

21 күн бұрын

@@Marwolaeth01 Come now... Most ALL workers find themselves employed out of necessity and not want. Only a small percentage of humans have a career they want.

@ilari90

21 күн бұрын

@@lukasg4807 Well, bruce is a crazy nutjob at times

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

@cryhavocandletslipthedogso1873

21 күн бұрын

He really should communicate the progress a bit more, but you guys are really impatient

@PatrickOMulligan

21 күн бұрын

​@@cryhavocandletslipthedogso1873are you joking?

@EvMund

21 күн бұрын

It was slated to come out mid 2017.

@cryhavocandletslipthedogso1873

21 күн бұрын

F**k, it's THAT bad?! And that much time has gone by? Okay, fair enough guys. 7 years is plenty for a little bit of impatience

@thotmorrison2649

21 күн бұрын

literally lay off though, he may have very little influence on when it is published at this point and have no new info to provide

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.

@1988rastafari

21 күн бұрын

+1

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!

@davesmith7432

21 күн бұрын

Me too😂

@jonnaylor3154

21 күн бұрын

And me!😎

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.

@patrickholt2270

13 күн бұрын

It's also a genre of myth that teaches messages about how to overcome fears, become a man and seek greatness if you have the advantages to be able to do so. In that myths are always moral, theological and wisdom instruction packaged in story forms for ease of transmission, for the benefit of people who otherwise wouldn't listen.

The audacity

@CaptainBogroll

21 күн бұрын

He said he expects it to release this year, perhaps that caused him to make this video

@Leo-ok3uj

18 күн бұрын

@@CaptainBogroll Fucking finally

Where is the VOTE ?

@VosperCDN

21 күн бұрын

Perhaps a hero is needed for finding this "vote here" post he refers to - I can't see it yet, at time of writing this reply.

@robertbruce7686

21 күн бұрын

'Twas a ruse on Sir Lindybeige's part methinks....

@boldCactuslad

21 күн бұрын

maybe the real vote is in our hearts

@JM-sy1by

20 күн бұрын

It got buried down the list by the downvotes: kzread.info/dash/bejne/a3-TpLOKYbCfZZM.html&lc=UgzViag4YOT26hL65SB4AaABAg

@JM-sy1by

19 күн бұрын

You have to copy/paste the link because yt chops it. Or just scroll down long enough and find it that way

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

@tokul76

21 күн бұрын

So basically nomad roaming around and taking stuff. Mongols did it with army twice as big.

@swayback7375

21 күн бұрын

Hero or not, it seems a very impressive feat… capable as he clearly was, he didn’t do this alone. To me it seems this topic is dripping with that old, outdated and disproven “great man” idea…

@leonardomarquesbellini

20 күн бұрын

That would imply there's heroism in killing. All of that is astounding and difficult to achieve, no doubt, but all it ever accomplished was hundreds of thousands lives cut short and many more carrying physical and emotional wounds they likely never fully recovered from.

@Andrew-yl7lm

20 күн бұрын

​@@tokul76But they weren't all mercenaries speaking 10+ different languages somehow efficiently fighting, communicating and staying loyal.

@thedandyzebra

20 күн бұрын

@@tokul76 you are overlooking many things such as him being outnumbered over 2:1, and his enemy was Rome, not a bunch of smaller states like the Mongols mostly faced

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

@johnnyjolijt2

20 күн бұрын

😖

@DrZip

19 күн бұрын

@@johnnyjolijt2

@johnnyjolijt2

18 күн бұрын

@@DrZip

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.

@sexyshadowcat7

21 күн бұрын

It won't work like that my dude. Only people that will get a copy are those that already bought it. Very highly unlikely Lindy could afford to do a second printing.

Where is your graphic novel that you told a 17 year old version of me it would be out next year!?! I’m 24 now!

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

I am glad you are still making such content Lloyd.

This is the only chanel for which I always 'look forward' to the sponsor section and I am never disappointed.

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 🇨🇦

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. 😢😢😢

@puliturchannel7225

21 күн бұрын

You capitalist whiner... "All to me at once" kind of attitude.

@thoughtsuponatime847

20 күн бұрын

Yes. But have you conquered Italy yet? I think the illustrator needs some inspiration. Would you mind giving it a go?

@nader50752

20 күн бұрын

@@thoughtsuponatime847 I'll try 😮‍💨😮‍💨😮‍💨

Hannibal without a doubt was the underdog when he keep on handing Rome there ass and still cant win the war and you loss one battle and it winds up with you losing the war. Your an underdog.

What an original way to address the fascinating subject of the punic wars! Who needs Gladiator 2 : were you there? What we need is a series about the second Punic war! Or a comic book indeed!

@Lassisvulgaris

15 күн бұрын

Ah, yes. A battle of puns.....

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!

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

Love how you mention heroes having a mountain to climb and completely avoid his trip over the Alps at the start 😂 "this is what we call in the business, foreshadowing" - Count Dankula 😂

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

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.

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

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

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.

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

love to see another long lecture!

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

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

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.

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

@lilacheaven222

21 күн бұрын

Also the format is borked! It shows a 1:1 format

@lindybeige

21 күн бұрын

@@lilacheaven222 Strange. It plays fine for me.

@miserychannel666

21 күн бұрын

@@lindybeige .. me as well.

@jonnaylor3154

21 күн бұрын

Hero.😎

@lilacheaven222

21 күн бұрын

​@@lindybeigeit's fixed now! I see I wasn't the only one experiencing the issue though

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

@Robert399

21 күн бұрын

That's kinda the problem though, that we judge people by allegiance, not character, intentions and consequences.

@willboucher5397

21 күн бұрын

A bit too simple perhaps. You could be from Carthage but think that Hannibal should be spending his money on the people and the state rather than pursuing a family vendetta...

@Unknown-jt1jo

21 күн бұрын

@@willboucher5397 Yup. The Barcid family had many enemies in Carthage.

@DJRockford83

21 күн бұрын

Alexander the Great, loved in the West, hated in the east and often described as having horns like a demon (probably reference to his helmet plumes)

@max7971

21 күн бұрын

@@willboucher5397 he was a general. He spent the money Carthage politicians allocated to him, and whatever he, as a private individual, had. You can recall that after Carthage stopped funding the war Hannibal’s campaign came to an end soon after.

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

I haven't studied this topic well enough but the idea that the second punic war kickstarted the growth of the Romans is really interesting and worth of research. Thanks and great video Lindy

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

@P-Mouse

20 күн бұрын

in fairness, Rome kinda was in the crushing business. Take Corinth or any number of other states

@TheRealInscrutable

19 күн бұрын

I'd say that he created fear in Rome.

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

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.

@Statalyzer

3 күн бұрын

Romans violated the treaty. Saguntum was on Carthage's side of the line.

so glad youve done another one of these videos again!

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

It's a mystery to me why modern hollywood, or others in modern days, never made a movie about the hannibal and the fate of carthage and the phoenecians. This story, which really happened, is much more intense than gladiator or other "historical" hollywood movies like that imho

@John21WoW

13 күн бұрын

don't worry, they got you covered, get ready for black hannibal pretty soon...

@DieBieneFranz

12 күн бұрын

@@John21WoW hahaha for sure. Perfect setup for the woke ideologic world view of white roman suppressors and the african victims. For sure Hannibal won't be historically accurate to transport their narrative like in every disney movie ever in the last years. That's why I'm wondering why they didn't do it yet xd

Nothing better than an Lindy story

Imagine fighting behind enemy lines for 15 years straight and still undefeated.

We missed your long videos Lindy!

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.

The irony of promoting shortform in an hour long vide 😂

@lc1138

20 күн бұрын

@@VEE727 hahahah

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

the humble hero turning out to be the special chosen one is a trope in modern media as well, how times change!

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

@bubbagump2341

21 күн бұрын

A graphic novel that will never be finished . . .

About time. Literally and figuratively.

Damn Lindy you've outdone yourself. Reminds me of your video about sleep, one of my all-time favorites. Warm greetings from the Netherlands🇳🇱!

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

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

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

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

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

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

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.

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

Love these long videos, always great!👍

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

@BlakedaBull

21 күн бұрын

I think Rome won

@admiralyawn3106

21 күн бұрын

@@BlakedaBullbro spoilers. I haven’t gotten there yet

@More_Row

21 күн бұрын

He’s still working on it

@TheSparda81

21 күн бұрын

As I understand it, the script (lloyd's part) is complete. All that's left is for Mr. Chris Steineger to finish the illustration, and then publishing.

@silver4831

20 күн бұрын

​@@TheSparda81Wasn't he finishing it years ago?

Please Lloyd, more long-format videos like these!

Unless he's from the Hero region of Alexandria, he's just a sparkling good guy

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...)

@auturgicflosculator2183

21 күн бұрын

I don't.

@wookieboss2643

21 күн бұрын

Great people understand sometimes you have to do bad things for the greater good . There is no good or bad in war .

@mycaleb8

21 күн бұрын

​@@wookieboss2643Crug answer. What " greater good"

@auturgicflosculator2183

21 күн бұрын

@@wookieboss2643 Anyone who thinks of war as a simple tool has long since lost all perspective in the struggle for ever more-corrupting power.

@crbielert

21 күн бұрын

Alexander the Reasonably Adequate.

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

man is simple: man see lindy video, man checks length, length is over an hour, man is happy

Long form history content from this man. How I've missed this.

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%.

@RolftheRed

21 күн бұрын

Still more accurate than any modern politician, or Newsperson - nonetheless. (grin)

@lifeschool

21 күн бұрын

The most current estimates are around 1 million inhabitants at the height of the Roman Empire. Romans didn't even hold the whole of modern Italy back in -216. They had from Rome downwards, so perhaps 60% of modern Italy. The Romans lost 1/5th of their male population at Cannae, if we say 60-70,000. So that would be 700K inhabitants total.

@lc1138

20 күн бұрын

​@@lifeschoolooh I didn't suspect the population to be so scarse. Which territories does it take into account into the million ? The whole empire ? Oh boy it must have been radically different to be so few on the planet.

@NICHOLASPASIN

20 күн бұрын

​@@lifeschool 1 million in Rome alone, you must certainly mean

@williamberne

19 күн бұрын

When you guys used the words like population and inhabitants, do you mean roman citizens? Have you counted the slaves, whose population is a few times more than the citizen?

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

Oh nice, one of my favorite Historical Military Figures. Can not wait to see what's in store.

Love these longer videos

Lindybiege been the goat for 10 years

@NelsonZAPTM

21 күн бұрын

I've got pet goats, so I'm not sure that is a compliment. Have you got any idea what a Billy does to attract the girls?

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

@bartsanders1553

21 күн бұрын

That's what you get for turning on notifications.

@myparceltape1169

21 күн бұрын

I've had a few videos which start silent. I restart and it works.

We want more of this please!!!

Lindy is so back!

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

@Robert399

21 күн бұрын

I feel almost the opposite. It seems like he was a decent person (at least he doesn't seem to have been arrogant, greedy or spiteful) but he didn't really fight *for* anything we'd consider good today.

@leonardomarquesbellini

20 күн бұрын

​@@Robert399I'd question how someone willing to crush countless others for wealth and power wouldn't be greedy.

@Robert399

20 күн бұрын

@@leonardomarquesbellini He was already extremely wealthy when he was born and didn't gain any more through the war, in fact he expended a huge amount of money. In terms of power, idk. I suppose if he'd won he would've become more powerful but only through reputation and alliances. It doesn't seem like he wanted to conquer the lands he was fighting in (which almost any ruler would).

Thanks!

A 1 hour Lindybeige video about Hannibal??? This has to be a dream!

A great video! Thanks for making it.