Publius Cornelius Scipio Aemilianus Africanus, known as Scipio Aemilianus or Scipio Africanus the Younger, was a Roman general and statesman noted for his military exploits in the Third Punic War agai
The so-called "Hellenistic Prince", tentatively identified as Scipio Aemilianus
Scipio Aemilianus cramming himself for a speech after a hearty supper. Image by John Leech from The Comic History of Rome, by Gilbert Abbott à Beckett.
Scipio at the deathbed of Masinissa
The Hellenistic Prince, a bronze statue made by a Greek artist in Rome, possibly depicting Scipio Aemilianus.
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
Scipio Aemilianus
…first wife, Papiria Masonis. Scipio was adopted by his first cousin, Publius Cornelius Scipio, the eldest son of his aunt Aemilia Tertia and her husband Publius Cornelius Scipio Africanus, the acclaimed commander who won the decisive battle of the Second Punic War against Hannibal. This made Scipio Africanus the adoptive grandfather of…
Bust likely of Scipio Africanus (formerly identified as Sulla)
A Carthaginian coin depicting Hasdrubal Barca (245–207 BC), one of Hannibal's younger brothers, wearing a diadem
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).