As to their parallel lives, Plutarch, who invented the genre, paired Scipio Africanus with the Theban general Epaminondas, not with Hannibal (who didn’t fit Plutarch’s schema, being neither Greek nor ...

Scipio Africanus, Hannibal’s bane. Born Publius Cornelius Scipio in 236 B.C., the great Roman general who was Hannibal’s greatest foe came from one of the great patrician families of Rome.

Some 16 years earlier, in 218 B.C., Hannibal had brought his army, including his war elephants, across the Alps and had won several battles in Italy, even while Scipio, the younger of the two, was ...

Hannibal and his archrival Scipio Africanus take a sacred vow to destroy the other and the nation he served. However, despite their firecely opposed allegiances, the two are brought together and ...

Halle Berry is set to executive produce Hannibal (working title), a miniseries about the great generals in antiquity -- Hannibal Barca and his archrival Scipio Africanus -- who went head-to-head ...

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Hannibal survived the clash and later landed in the eastern Mediterranean. In a curious parallelism, Scipio landed there too, ...

Beginning in 264 BC, “Hannibal” takes viewers through the Second Punic War between Carthage and Rome, exploring the relationship between Hannibal and his archrival Scipio Africanus.