Hasdrubal Barca
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Hasdrubal Barca, a latinization of the Punic ʿAzrubaʿal, son of Hamilcar Barca, was a Carthaginian general in the Second Punic War. He was the brother of Hannibal and Mago Barca.
A coin showing Hasdrubal as the strategos of Iberia
Énée et Didon, Guérin
Mommsen p 265
Scipio Africanus
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Publius Cornelius Scipio Africanus was a Roman general and statesman who was one of the main architects of Rome's victory against Carthage in the Second Punic War. Often regarded as one of the greates
Hasdrubal Barca
…Romans reinforced this detachment with 10,000 troops under Claudius Nero in 211 BC to stabilize the situation, and with another 10,000 soldiers under Scipio Africanus Major in 210 BC, who spent the year training his army and improving his diplomatic contacts. The Carthaginian armies had dispersed into the interior of Iberia…
Bust likely of Scipio Africanus (formerly identified as Sulla)
Bronze bust dated mid-first century BC, formerly identified as Scipio Africanus, now thought to portray a priest of Isis
Antiochus sends his son to Scipio. Painting by Jean-Pierre Granger (c. 1800).