The first night in story order
The First Punic War, narrated for sleep
The whole of the First Punic War, told slowly in one night: the crisis at Messana that began it in 264 BC, Rome’s first fleet, the battles at sean.1, the invasion of Africa, the long years in Sicily, and the peace of 241 BCn.2. n.1 Polybius gives the cost at sea: about seven hundred quinqueremes lost by Rome, counting the shipwrecks, and about five hundred by Carthage (1.63.6). n.2 His twenty-four years count the first year and the last: the war ran from 264 to 241 BC.
What is contested
- The record for this piece is incomplete: no sources line was published with it and its script is not on file, so the register cannot say which translation it follows.
See also
The Battle of Ecnomus, 256 BC, narrated for sleep
One summer of this war, slowed to a single night: the formation at sea, the landing in Africa, the winter camp.
The next night
1:01:53
How the First Punic War began, 264 to 262 BC
The war awake: the documentary series starts with the vote that began it.
Awake
23:37
Sources
Not recorded. The description published with this piece named no sources, and no surviving file identifies the script it was read from. This entry will be completed if that record turns up.