Lake Trasimene in Podcasts
placeLake Trasimene was a large lake in Italy, the site of Hannibal's ambush of the Roman army.
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570. Hannibal: The Invasion of Italy (Part 3)
To his left now were the hills that stretched beyond the city of Cortona, and to his right was Lake Trasimene. That was Polybius describing the evening of the 20th of June, 217 BC, so we've moved on six months from the Battle of Trebia, and the scene is now moved from northern Italy to Etruria, the land of the Etruscans, modern-day Tuscany, so we're about 50 miles south of Florence.