Cautionary Tales · Stop No. 30
Hannibal — Circle Back
“Let's take this offline. Over the Alps.”
- Era
- 218 BC
- Provenance
- The Alps, against all advice
- Medium
- Woodcut on cotton
- Edition
- Limited run
The Carthaginian general famously declined the direct route to Rome, electing instead to circle back through the Alps with war elephants. Rome, for its part, spent the next fifteen years asking him to put time on the calendar. He never took the meeting at Rome itself — history's most consequential unanswered follow-up.
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