Another Hannibal story Thanks to paleowackotarian Lew Rockwell for pointing me to this story about Hannibal and the new films based on him. Race is again an issue.

It all makes for a great story, but if the Americans really want to go for authenticity, they should cast a Semite from Tunisia, Lebanon, Syria or even Palestine in the lead. Ah! Not such good box-office.

Not to be a prig about this-but perhaps they should teach the bloke the languages of the time-after all, Hannibal did not speak English!