#Hannibal crossing the alps

[witchparade]

[merlions]

Maybe im just getting older and tired of seeing how slowly things change and also of overwhelming irresolvable vitriol & rage as the exclusive way change is encouraged but it occurs to me that addressing every single individual microaggressive comment anyone makes by attributing it to the grandest broadest scope of the social problem may be technically correct, but ultimately ofen fruitless and tbh exclusively using that as a dialectical tool seems often honestly detrimental to encouraging actual practical meaningful change. Don't bog me down son etc. The broadest scope seems untouchably vast. "OK I hear you but what do I even do about that. How do I even start approaching that." Theres place for it, for sure! But it truly seems necessary to also have in your arsenal the tool "hey that sucked, please do not" which is extraordinarily efficient. Cuts right through the lossy scrambled eggs of a like...really diffuse and multiple-meta-iterations away fractal idea path that really makes it hard to understand it as a clear image. This way is breaking down a mountain by attrition - very few people have access to dynamite and "just blow it up" is absolutely useless advice if you don't

[smak-annihilation]

the ghosts of half of Hannibal's army are fuming over this post

I don't want anyone to take this the wrong way but Europe is kinda like a miniature America. All the landscapes and trees and stuff are SMALL, they're little versions of the stuff we got going on over here. Even your big things, like the alps, are so cute. You could put a fun roller coaster up there and make it a little ride for the kids.

[pmamtraveller]

SNOW STORM: HANNIBAL AND HIS ARMY CROSSING THE ALPS (1812) by JOSEPH MALLORD WILLIAM TURNER

In this image, TURNER shows HANNIBAL’S troops as they make their way across the ALPS in the year 218 BC. A curved arch of dark storm clouds rises above the soldiers, and a golden sun glimmers through the clouds.

In the foreground, the soldiers are battling the local tribes in the dark, while in the distance the Italian plains are lit up by the sun. On the right, an avalanche is descending down the mountainside. Where is HANNIBAL? He may be riding his elephant, which you can barely see in the background.

TURNER painted this painting during the FRENCH and BRITISH NAPOLEONIC WARS. He saw the similarities between HANNIBAL and NAPOLEON. This painting is Turner's reaction to the 1801-1805 painting by JACQUES-LOUIS DAVID, titled NAPOLEON CROSSING THE ALPS.

This is the first example of TURNER using a swirling whirlpool of wind and rain and snow and clouds, a theme he would return to frequently in later works such as his 1842 work Snow Storm: steam-boat off a harbour’s mouth. His ongoing investigations of light and atmosphere greatly influenced future Impressionists and Post-Impressionists, such as MONET and PISSARRO.

[save-the-villainous-cat]

may I request a really really really smart villain. but somehow the hero manages to outsmart them, and even though villain is completely dumbfounded, they find it incredibly hot???

gl, if you wish, but im fine with anything !!

“You’re scared,” the villain whispered. “I know what that feels like. I know what it can do to a person.”

Their fingertips traced the hero’s clavicle gently, as if they attempted to calm a startled deer by stoking it.

“It’s not a pleasant emotion. It certainly isn’t one anyone should be used to. So I’m curious, do you need my help?” the villain said. Their eyes scanned the hero curiously. Almost as if they could absorb everything about them just by looking at them.

Something about the hero seemed to pull them in, something seemed to fascinate them on a grand scale and the hero couldn’t tell if they loved the challenge or the attention.

“Would you mind?” the hero asked. They nodded towards the villain’s fingers on their body and clearly, the villain received their message. They pulled away and smiled. Curiosity seemed to be their big weakness.

“I apologise, of course. I’m fond of pretty things.”

“As every crow is.”

“That’s a compliment.” The hero didn’t answer. They knew the villain was toying with them; they were fully aware of their sweet words and their kind smile.

The villain wasn’t easy to understand and that was a big problem in this whole mess. Incompetent people proposed a threat to the city because of their lack of intelligence. They weren’t easy to understand, they were unpredictable.

Usually, the hero could argue with smart people, could get into their minds and understand their motives but the villain was a complete minefield. Their unpredictability came from several unrelated plans that intertwined and altogether made up a whole picture.

They were ten steps ahead. Always.

Suddenly, a missing professor, a burning bakery, a sick child and a stolen book were parts of a chain that would make sense to the hero much, much later. Ordinary things could play huge parts in these reaction chains, something they liked to call “controlled butterfly effect”. It made the hero think of all the details, all the little crimes in the city. It made them overanalyse every little conversation they had with the villain.

Was the villain giving them clues?

Was there a way to decipher these riddles?

How could anyone be at ten different places at the same time?

How was it possible to get information you’d have to torture out of people without actually talking to anyone at all?

“I’ll have to change my address for the third time this month,” the hero said. “You should apologise for that as well.”

“It’s not my fault you make it so easy for me.” The villain looked around the hero’s living room and in some weird and strange way, the hero felt superior to them, now that everything was done. It would’ve been foolish to say they were relieved. In fact, the villain was right. They were terrified. “New choice of plants, I see. You like orchids?”

“Why exactly are you here?” the hero asked. They assumed the villain knew about yesterday. They also assumed the villain was here to talk about that. “So you can make fun of me? Humiliate me in my own home?”

“Without an audience? Please, I thought you knew me.” The villain’s eyes found the hero’s again after what they deemed to be enough observation.

“You like it more intimate. You like it when it’s just us.” Now, the villain looked intrigued.

“Touché,” they said, almost as if the hero had defeated them with a single word. The hero wished it had been that easy.

“Again. Why are you here?” The hero crossed their arms in front of their chest. It was getting quite chilly in just a shirt and underwear.

In response, the villain took in a deep breath and sat down on the hero’s couch. They lounged.

“When Hannibal crossed the Alps, do you think he was scared? I mean, all that responsibility on his shoulders? It was dangerous, he could’ve lost his entire army.”

“Is this supposed to be some metaphor for me being Hannibal and you being…what? The Roman Republic?” the hero asked. Sometimes, it was laughable where the villain’s mind went. It was hard enough to keep up with them already but the amount of knowledge the hero acquired from talking to them alone was insane.

It was the type of learning experience that required failing repeatedly to get to the answer. The hero didn’t enjoy it.

But the villain only chuckled.

“I was trying to say that being determined and scared can coexist. You did something that demands great courage.” They tilted their head. “And yet, it is a very scary thing.”

With slow steps, the hero approached them until they were close enough. They sat down on the villain’s lap. Unsurprisingly, their nemesis didn’t protest.

They weren’t proud of what had happened, they weren’t proud of what they’d done.

“How can a person obtain information no one dares to whisper?” the hero asked. “How can that person receive it within seconds?”

“You tell me,” the villain said. An invitation. It would’ve been illogical to decline.

“You had two helpers. Someone who can teleport. Someone who can turn invisible. I don’t know how you convinced them but they were heroes once.”

The villain nodded.

“The Romans had to learn the hard way how important spies are. They learnt it from the Carthaginian. Like I learnt from you years ago,” the villain said. It was difficult to imagine that all this was the hero’s fault. “Now, tell me what you did when you found out.”

The hero was quiet until the villain’s palm brushed their thigh softly. The villain seemed unfittingly euphoric.

“I knew they wouldn’t be easy to keep in a cell.”

“So?”

“So I killed them.” The villain nodded.

“You killed them,” the villain agreed. “Did you know crows wait for other predators to tear open their prey?”

The hero waited. The villain wasn’t angry. They were fascinated. It hadn’t even occurred to the hero that this was the solution up until yesterday.

And still, even though this was a major success when it came to stopping the villain, it wasn’t satisfactory. Killing two of their own people hadn’t been pretty.

“Did you know curiosity killed the cat?” the hero asked back. Behind their back, they clenched their fist to stop their hand from shaking.

Within seconds, several red laser dots pointed at the villain. With the hero on their lap, pressing them into the couch, there wasn’t anywhere to go. The sharpshooters wouldn’t let the villain move a muscle.

And behind the shocked expression, the hero saw something they weren’t sure if they loathed or liked: a certain admiration for only them.

[what-even-is-thiss]

When people talk about Hannibal my immediate first thought is still about the guy who crossed the alps with elephants so I forget that to most people he’s a fictional serial killer

[flock-of-cassowaries]

I love it when I think I get a reference, but then it’s like no, that reference went right over your head, and it was much more clever than you realized.

(And here I thought Hannibal took place in an alternate dimension where humour hadn’t yet been invented; but no! The joke was the references we missed along the way, while we were confidently thinking we were Good At Symbolism.)

Will Graham builds a boat to sail to Italy and face Hannibal, and names it Nola. That could refer to the city of New Orleans, for Will is from Louisiana, but its symbolic meaning could go way deeper: in the battle of Nola (214 BC), Hannibal was defeated by the Romans, after he tried unsuccessfully to conquer the town three times. It's considered a minor victory, but paramount to the Roman morale.

But whether the victory was on such a scale or less, a very great thing - I rather think the greatest in that war - was accomplished that day. For not to be defeated by Hannibal was a more difficult thing than it was later to defeat him.

Titus Livius, Ab Urbe Condita [History of Rome]

And then, when they're back from Italy, Will says this, knowing he's about to actually defeat Hannibal by rejecting him:

Rejecting Hannibal is the most difficult thing Will has to do, because by now he knows he wants to run away with him. But that would mean to be defeated by his Hannibal.

Will is the definitive master of strategy.

[lionofchaeronea]

Title: Hannibal Crossing the Alps on an Elephant Artist: perhaps Nicolas Poussin (French, 1594-1665); attribution disputed Date: ca. 1625-26 Genre: historical painting Period: French Baroque Movement: Classicism Medium: oil on canvas Dimensions: 100 cm (39.3 in) high x 133 cm (52.3 in) wide Location: private collection

[illustratus]

Hannibal Crossing the Alps by Francisco Goya

[brielledoesastrology]

asteroid Hannibal (2152) in your astrology natal chart

By : Brielledoesastrology (tumblr)

The asteroid Hannibal (2152) was named after the well known great general Hannibal Barca.

Hannibal Barca was one of Rome's greatest but most respected enemies. Hannibal Barca was one of the greatest generals of all time and one of Rome's most feared enemies. After taking command of an army at 25, Hannibal launched an ambitious campaign to cross the Alps and attack Rome itself. He won 18 battles in his life. But of course at the end of the day he was defeated.At some point during this conflict, the Romans again demanded the surrender of Hannibal. Finding himself unable to escape, he killed himself by taking poison in the Bithynian village of Libyssa, probably around 183 B.C

He was the greatest general of the carthage empire.

Asteroid Hannibal code number : 2152

In astrology the asteroid Hannibal (2152) could indicate : where you are feared by people but extremely respected at the same time, where u always win any games, battles or any competitions (anything relating being competitive to win something), where people see you as top tier, where you are viewed as the "greatest" in something, being competitive, where u know ur rivals or enemies well.

[⚠️ Warning : i consider this asteroid as prominent and brings the most effect if it conjuncts ur personal planets (sun,moon,venus,mercury,mars) and if it conjuncts ur personal points (ac,dc,ic,mc), i use 0 - 2.5 orbs (for conjunctions). For sextile, trine, opposite and square aspects to asteroids i usually use 0 - 2 orbs. Yes tight conjunctions of planet / personal points to asteroids tend to give the most effect, but other aspects (sextile,trine,square,opposite,etc) still exist, even they produce effects. ⚠️]

Famous people who have asteroid Hannibal (2152) prominent in their astrology natal chart :

- Nicki Minaj have asteroid Hannibal conjunct her mercury in sag in a 0 orb. THAT'S AN EXACT CONJUNCTION RIGHT THERE!!!

- Eminem have asteroid Hannibal conjunct his moon in a 1 orb in aquarious in his 3rd house. Make sense 😂.

- Beyonce have asteroid Hannibal conjunct her pluto, venus and her ascendant in a 1 orb and 2 orb in her 1st house in libra. Not surprised.

- Kim Kardashian have asteroid Hannibal conjunct her jupiter and midheaven in virgo in 1 orb.

[liberty1776]

Hannibal Crossing the Alps

[memories-of-ancients]

The Forgotten Battle of Silva Litana, Autumn 216 BC

The year 216 BC was certainly a bad year for Roman civilization and perhaps the worst year of the Roman Republic’s history. Two years into the Second Punic War Hannibal Barca and his Carthaginian Army had crossed the Alps and marched deep into Italy. 

In the summer of 216 BC the Romans assembled the largest Roman army in their history up to that point in order to stop Hannibal once and for all. The two armies met on August 2nd near Cannae in southern Italy. Despite being heavily outnumbered, the Carthaginians managed to surround and annihilate the Roman Army, leaving only 15,000 survivors out of an army of 85,000. The Battle of Cannae would go down in history as Hannibal’s greatest victory, and one of Rome’s worst defeats. In the aftermath another embarrassing and devastating defeat would occur which today is little known, being overshadowed by the horrors of Cannae. Yet the massacre at Silva Litana was in many ways just as devastating and the tactics used would rival the best of Hannibal in terms of ingenuity and brilliance.

Merely a few months after the Battle of Cannae, the Roman Consul Lucius Postumius Albinus raised an army of 25,000 men in order to retaliate against the Boii, a Celtic tribe living in Cisalpine Gaul (Northern Italy) who had allied with and given support to Hannibal. The route took the army through a heavily wooded forest called Litana.

Unfortunately for the Romans, the Boii had predicted this route and had readied a clever ambush.  The only way through the forest was a single small road. Along the road the Boii had cut large notches in the trees so that they would remain standing if unsupported, but could be easily knocked over. Once the Roman army had march deep within the forest, the Boii sprang from their hiding places and began pushing dozens of trees onto the Romans. The large trees easily crushed men, horses, and wagons, and broke apart Roman formations leading to panic and chaos among the Romans. The Roman army broke and scattered in terror as the Boii attacked, allowing the Boii to easily pick off scattered groups of soldiers. The Boii took no prisoners, executing all who surrendered. Out of the 25,000 Romans who marched into the forest, only 10 are said to have escaped, a survival rate that was far worse than even Cannae.

The disaster at Silva Litana only added more bad news for Rome, sending the city into a panic. In desperation the Romans resorted to human sacrifice to appease the gods while recruiting criminals and slaves in order to rebuild the Roman Army. Fortunately for Rome, this was a time in history when the Roman military machine could take a lot of punishment but still keep fighting. After the disasters at Cannae and Litana the Romans changed strategy, preferring to avoid direct battle with Hannibal, instead opening up new fronts in the war to spread out Carthaginian resources. Instead of trying to defeat the Carthaginians with a few decisive battles, the Roman’s settled on slowly grinding down the enemy through long attrition. Hannibal would never conquer Italy or Rome, and while the Romans could afford to lose tens of thousands of men, the Carthaginians could not. While the Romans had the resources to play the long game, the Carthaginians did not. As for the Boii, the Romans retaliated in 193 BC and defeated them at the Battle of Mutina and forced the entire tribe to flee from northern Italy. 

[ominouspositivity-or-else]

"More Light! More Light!" by Anthony Hecht // "No Light, No Light," by Florence and the Machine // Snow Storm: Hannibal and his Army Crossing the Alps (1812), J.M.W. Turner

[fooblesdraws]

Here is the grass type starter line in the Vecchia Region! Sproutrunk, Pachystomp, and Petrodon

They are inspired by the Apennine mountains, agriculture, and Hannibal crossing the Alps with his elephants!

The design process for this line was quite difficult because I struggled to create a good shape language for them. I wanted to avoid that they became big, shapeless blobs in their silhouette. I think I did a decent job! And yes, I made the grass starter bipedal, but the character I wanted to present did not really work when Petrodon was on all fours.

[birdstooth]

This is for @tonroti666 … I actually lost your ask 😭😭😭😭😭😳😳😳😳😳😳 and was too embarrassed to ask again bc it was months ago but I remember u wanted a carousel with Christine+Raoul on a white horse, Erik chasing them on a black horse, Carlotta on a toad and Piangi struggling to get on an elephant bc of his goof in Hannibal

So here’s what I got and I hope it’s at least like… 60% correct (I’m so sorry lmao)

The other rides are not blobs they are avant-grade abstract shapes at this carnival sponsored by MoMA ok

The elephant eye to body size ratio is absolutely correct don’t question it

Napoleon Carlotta crossing the alps

Bonus Erik doodle

+ closeups I guess bc I drew them at a weird angle

Ps: if u sent in a request I will get to it in the next 6-8 business months I promise 🥺

[obsession-of-aesthetic]

"Ahasuerus at the End of the World" by Adolf Hirémy-Hirschl (1888)

The painting depicts "the Wandering Jew" Ahasuerus, who was cursed with immortality to witness the end of the world according to the legend. The legend began to spread in the 13th century, Europe.

The legend has various versions and in the original, Ahasuerus mocks Jesus on the way to the Crucifixion, thus cursed to wander endlessly until the Second Coming.

The origins of the legend are uncertain, yet widely spread in various languages.

Adolf Hirémy-Hirschl was a well-known Hungarian, Jewish artist, who was especially famous for his historical and mythical paintings. He covered subjects of ancient Rome in many of his works.

He was born 31 January 1860 in Temesvár, at the time a part of Hungary. Later at an early age he went to Vienna to study. He received a scholarship to attend the Akademie der bildenden Künste in 1878. Two years later, he won his first prize with "Farewell: Scene from Hannibal Crossing the Alps", followed in 1882 by a prize that allowed him to travel to Rome. His time there was a major influence on his choice of subject matter.

His heirs kept several of his smaller pieces until the early 1980s, while some of his larger historical paintings sadly have been lost.