bits that struck me funny

Carthage appears to be obsessed with monkeys.

Numidians appear to have a similar obsession with cats.

Act V appears to be about as long as the first four acts put together.

When you show the making of a human pyramid in order to go over a wall, it's also important to show how the pyramid is taken down again.

Even though ancient world slaves came from all over -- many of them being Slavic and hence the name -- in this movie most of them are black.

Somehow Hannibal returned to Carthage and got himself defeated at Zama even though we never really saw him after he crossed the Alps.

Hannibal is in the Alps and the people in Carthage rejoice. Someone must have let them know about it via cellphone.

Someone in Cirta wears the Bavarian coat of arms.

Apparently desks hadn't been invented yet because Archimedes had to put his paper on the floor and then use an enormous compass to draw a half circle and then a very long pencil to draw the straight lines.

Hannibal's brother or brother-in-law was apparently ruling Carthage even though he should have been in Carthago Nova at the time.



I'm sure there were some other bits that struck you funny?