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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
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).
Publius Cornelius Scipio was a general and statesman of the Roman Republic and the father of Scipio Africanus.
Scipio Africanus
…BC, which earned him the honorific epithet Africanus ("the African"). Born into a distinguished patrician family in Rome, Scipio followed his father Publius Scipio to war against Carthage, and survived the disastrous Roman defeat at Cannae. In 210 BC, despite never having held consular office, he was elected to…
Battle of Hannibal and Scipio (Alexander's victory over Poros), by Ignaz Elhafen, Warsaw Royal Castle