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This, he wrote, made Hannibal believe that he would die in Libya, but instead, it was at the Bithynian Libyssa that he would die. [ 85 ] In his Annales , Titus Pomponius Atticus reports that Hannibal's death occurred in 183 BC, [ 90 ] and Livy implies the same.
Dr. Hannibal Lecter is a character created by American novelist Thomas Harris. Lecter is a brilliant, cannibalistic serial killer and former forensic psychiatrist ; after his incarceration, he is consulted by FBI agents Will Graham and Clarice Starling to help them find other serial killers.
Hannibal received similar news to the effect that the Romans had just arrived with one of their consular armies (22,000 feet and 2,000 horses). [61] Hannibal took advantage of the pre-existing hatred the Celts on the western bank had for the Romans and persuaded them to aid him in his crossing of this formidable obstacle.
The Battle of Cannae (/ ˈ k æ n i,-eɪ,-aɪ /; [c] Latin: [ˈkanːae̯]) was a key engagement of the Second Punic War between the Roman Republic and Carthage, fought on 2 August 216 BC near the ancient village of Cannae in Apulia, southeast Italy.
During Hannibal's assault on Saguntum, he suffered some losses due to the extensive fortifications and the tenacity of the defending Saguntines, but his troops stormed and destroyed the city's defenses one at a time. Hannibal was even severely wounded in the thigh by a javelin, and fighting was stopped for a few weeks while he recovered. [2]
The defection of Capua to Hannibal after the Battle of Cannae in 216 BC was perhaps the most significant of his gains at the expense of the Roman alliance in Italy. [1] As Livy put it, "a city of such renown, and such power, had draw a number of different peoples with her when she defected". [2]
Peter Stumpp's alleged crimes and execution remain one of the most legendary — and disputed — werewolf trials in history
Mason Verger is a fictional character and the main antagonist of Thomas Harris's 1999 novel Hannibal, as well as its 2001 film adaptation and the second and third seasons of the TV series Hannibal. In the film, he is portrayed by Gary Oldman , while in the TV series he is portrayed by Michael Pitt and Joe Anderson .