This guaranteed a war with Rome, and a consular army, led by Africanus’ father (another Publius Cornelius Scipio), was en route to Spain when Hannibal wrongfooted everyone with his lightning march ...

Roman Bronze bust of Scipio Africanus in a Hellenized style, National Archeological Museum, Naples. Credit: Alex-David Baldi / CC BY-SA 4.0. Although his epithet was Africanus, Publius Cornelius ...

Once home to Cornelius Scipio Africanus, a famed Roman general who defeated Hannibal, the former port city is now an archaeological park, and its ruins include a forum, temple, amphitheater and ...

In the same year, 183 BCE, two great figures of ancient military history passed away. One was the Roman Publius Cornelius Scipio Africanus; the other, a Greek whose body was cremated in a ceremony of ...

Scipio Africanus was born as Publius Cornelius Scipio in 236 BC. His family was one of the major still-extant patrician families, a group of ruling class families in ancient Rome. He took the agnomen ...

The Second Punic War was overwhelmingly going in their favour when the Romans appointed a new general to combat him; Publius Cornelius Scipio Africanus He turned the tide of the war, and by the time ...

Scipio was born Publius Cornelius Scipio but later, after his African campaign, became known as Scipio Africanus. He had been successful against the Carthaginian forces in Spain, where Rome’s ...

were also motivated by an intense hatred – the festering resentment among Roman citizens at the depredations wrought by Hannibal’s invasion in the second Punic war pushed Scipio Aemilianus to ...