Prologue
Welcome to my third ATL attempt!
I first started thinking about continuing my Athenian Hegemony ATL. However, since the beginning of this year a certain POD was always in my mind. What if Antiochus III accepted Hannibal’s proposal and helped him to fight Rome once more?
Prologue
As soon as he found himself at the court of Antiochus, Hannibal began to form new plans for making war against Rome. He proposed that the Seleucid king should raise a force and put it under his charge. He said that if Antiochus would give him a hundred ships and ten thousand men, he would take command of the expedition in person, and he did not doubt that, he should be able to recover his lost ground and once more humble his ancient and formidable enemy. He would go first, he said, with his force to Carthage, to get the co-operation and aid of his countrymen there in his new plans. Then he would make a descent upon Italy, and he had no doubt that he should soon regain the ascendency there which he had formerly held.
Hannibal’s design of going first to Carthage with his Seleucid army was doubtless induced by his desire to put down the party of his enemies there, and to restore power to his adherents and partisans. In order to prepare the way more effectually for this, he sent a secret messenger to Carthage. In OTL this agent failed in his mission. So here comes the POD! In my ATL the agent succeed and this makes Antiochus support Hannibal’s plan.
Rome just before the POD:
In the summer of 194 B.C. the last Roman troops left Greece. The Romans hoped that their settlement of Greek affairs would bring an end to the epidemic of wars which had been the main feature of recent Greek history. The war against Nabis of Sparta was to have been the last.
In the course of the same year, Cato the elder returned to Rome and was rewarded with the honour of a Roman triumph for his achievements in Hispania. At which triumph he exhibited an extraordinary quantity of captured brass, silver, and gold, both coin and ingots
The Battle of Placentia was also fought in 194 BC, against the Boii tribe. The Roman army won the battle.
Seleucid empire just before the POD:
Seleucid armies had campaigned in Thrace in 195 and 194 with some success, but in Asia Minor both Lampsacus and Smyrna still held out. An attempt to arrange an alliance with Rome had failed in 195, so in the winter of 194-3 Antiochus decided to send envoys to Rome. They arrived at the same time as a large number of delegates from the Greek states, in Rome because the Senate was about to work through the details of the peace settlement. This time the Romans simply insisted that he withdraw from Europe. The freedoms of the Greek cities of Asia Minor must also be respected, but the area would be part of the Seleucid sphere of influence. Antiochus’s envoys had no authority to negotiate away his European territories and so the mission ended in failure.
The world just after the pod(similar with OTL):
So let’s start! First chapter coming soon!
I would like to thank @cerebus for his great editing and @Achaemenid Rome for his notes!
I first started thinking about continuing my Athenian Hegemony ATL. However, since the beginning of this year a certain POD was always in my mind. What if Antiochus III accepted Hannibal’s proposal and helped him to fight Rome once more?
Prologue
As soon as he found himself at the court of Antiochus, Hannibal began to form new plans for making war against Rome. He proposed that the Seleucid king should raise a force and put it under his charge. He said that if Antiochus would give him a hundred ships and ten thousand men, he would take command of the expedition in person, and he did not doubt that, he should be able to recover his lost ground and once more humble his ancient and formidable enemy. He would go first, he said, with his force to Carthage, to get the co-operation and aid of his countrymen there in his new plans. Then he would make a descent upon Italy, and he had no doubt that he should soon regain the ascendency there which he had formerly held.
Hannibal’s design of going first to Carthage with his Seleucid army was doubtless induced by his desire to put down the party of his enemies there, and to restore power to his adherents and partisans. In order to prepare the way more effectually for this, he sent a secret messenger to Carthage. In OTL this agent failed in his mission. So here comes the POD! In my ATL the agent succeed and this makes Antiochus support Hannibal’s plan.
Rome just before the POD:
In the summer of 194 B.C. the last Roman troops left Greece. The Romans hoped that their settlement of Greek affairs would bring an end to the epidemic of wars which had been the main feature of recent Greek history. The war against Nabis of Sparta was to have been the last.
In the course of the same year, Cato the elder returned to Rome and was rewarded with the honour of a Roman triumph for his achievements in Hispania. At which triumph he exhibited an extraordinary quantity of captured brass, silver, and gold, both coin and ingots
The Battle of Placentia was also fought in 194 BC, against the Boii tribe. The Roman army won the battle.
Seleucid empire just before the POD:
Seleucid armies had campaigned in Thrace in 195 and 194 with some success, but in Asia Minor both Lampsacus and Smyrna still held out. An attempt to arrange an alliance with Rome had failed in 195, so in the winter of 194-3 Antiochus decided to send envoys to Rome. They arrived at the same time as a large number of delegates from the Greek states, in Rome because the Senate was about to work through the details of the peace settlement. This time the Romans simply insisted that he withdraw from Europe. The freedoms of the Greek cities of Asia Minor must also be respected, but the area would be part of the Seleucid sphere of influence. Antiochus’s envoys had no authority to negotiate away his European territories and so the mission ended in failure.
The world just after the pod(similar with OTL):
So let’s start! First chapter coming soon!
I would like to thank @cerebus for his great editing and @Achaemenid Rome for his notes!
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