A recent study by historian Connor Beattie, published in the Journal of Ancient History, reveals a little-known but crucial ...

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 ...

According to the traveler Javier Reverte, the Mediterranean has a “mythological and mystical soul, but above all, it has a poetic soul.” As the famous song says, that can be felt “from Algeciras to ...

A colored engraving from the 19th century depicts the Battle of Zama (202 B.C.) in what is now Tunisia involving a combat elephant. A Roman army led by Publius Cornelius Scipio Africanus defeated ...

With a flourish worthy of Scipio Africanus, Pietro Badoglio, Marshal of Italy and Governor of the colonies of Tripolitania and Cyrenaica (now known as Italian Libya), reported to II Duce last week ...

Scipio was thereafter known as Scipio Africanus — "the African" — and Carthage became subordinate to Rome; but it was destroyed in 146 B.C. at the end of the Third Punic War, which Rome ...

George John Scipio Africanus was educated by the family and later became a successful brass foundry owner. The city's mayor will unveil the plaque at Wolverhampton Archives History Fair before it ...