Scipio Africanus
Scipio Africanus | |
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Born | 236 or 235 BC |
Died | c. 183 BC |
Nationality | Roman |
Known for | Defeating Hannibal |
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Spouse | Aemilia Tertia |
Children | 4, including Cornelia |
Parent |
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Relatives | Scipio Asiaticus (brother) Scipio Aemilianus (adoptive grandson) Tiberius and Gaius Gracchus (grandsons) |
Military service | |
Allegiance | Rome |
Branch/service | Roman army |
Battles/wars |
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Publius Cornelius Scipio Africanus (/ˈskɪp.i.oʊ/, /ˈsɪp-/, Latin: [ˈskiːpioː]; 236/235–c. 183 BC) was a Roman general and statesman, most notable as one of the main architects of Rome's victory against Carthage in the Second Punic War. Often regarded as one of the greatest military commanders and strategists of all time, his greatest military achievement was the defeat of Hannibal at the Battle of Zama in 202 BC. This victory in Africa earned him the honorific epithet Africanus, literally meaning "the African", but meant to be understood as a conqueror of Africa.
Scipio's conquest of
Early years
Family
Scipio Africanus was born as Publius Cornelius Scipio in 236 BC to his
Early military service
The
Two years later, in 216 BC, Scipio served as
The next year, in 213 BC, he was elected
Second Punic War
Campaign in Hispania
From the start of the war through to 211 BC, Scipio's father, Publius Cornelius Scipio, and uncle –
Initially, Gaius Claudius Nero – who was praetor in 212 BC – was sent to contain the situation.[19] But in 210 BC, the assembly elected Scipio to take command.[20] Modern scholars dismiss the Livian narrative of senatorial indecision and have instead suggested that the senate chose Scipio but forced a popular vote to legitimise an irregular command.[21] Giving Scipio command was an extraordinary act, as he at this point had never held a praetorship or consulship, but was regardless granted imperium pro consule, taking command on his arrival to Spain in the early autumn.[22] He was the first person to have been given proconsular imperium without having held consular office.[23] He went to Spain with some 10,000 reinforcements[21] and was joined by another commander, Marcus Junius Silanus, who was dispatched pro praetore and soon assumed command of Nero's army.[20]
Seeking to defeat the three Carthaginian armies in detail,
After the battle, several Spanish tribes defected to the Romans. The next year, 208 BC, Scipio fought Hasdrubal north of the river Baetis, near Baecula. While Scipio was victorious, the battle was indecisive and Hasdrubal escaped north with most of his army across the Pyrenees for Italy;[27] Hasdrubal and his army reached Italy in 207, where they were eventually defeated in the Battle of the Metaurus with the army destroyed and Hasdrubal slain.[28] The following year, Hasdrubal was replaced by a certain Hanno, who was captured by Junius Silanus in Celtiberia. Following the army under Hasdrubal, son of Gisgo, which retreated to Gades (modern Cádiz), Scipio's brother took Orongis (modern Jaén) before a decisive victory in 206 BC at the Battle of Ilipa, north of modern Seville, forced the Carthaginians to withdraw from the peninsula.[29] In mopping-up operations, Scipio captured Ilourgeia and Castulo, inflicting severe punishment on the former for having killed refugees from his army. Other Roman commanders captured other towns in Spain, including Astapa, whose inhabitants committed mass suicide.[30] After a quickly-suppressed revolt by Spanish tribes when false rumours of Scipio's death from illness spread, he crossed into Africa to solicit the support of Syphax and thence into western Hispania to meet Massinissa for the same purpose.[31] Syphax pledged loyalty but eventually joined with the Carthaginians; Massinissa, however, joined with the Romans with a small contingent when Syphax expelled him the kingdom of Massylii.[32] Meanwhile, Gades surrendered to the Romans.[33]
Some time c. 206 BC, Scipio also founded the town of Italica (located about 9 km northwest of Seville), which later became the birthplace of the emperors, Trajan, Hadrian, and Theodosius I.[34][35]
With a general victory across the peninsula, Scipio then returned to Rome to stand for the consulship of 205 BC, leaving Lucius Cornelius Lentulus and Lucius Manlius Acidinus in command.[36][37] He returned to Rome late in the year; according to Livy he was denied a triumph,[38] on the grounds that he was privatus – that is, sine magistratu, – and had never been elected to a magistracy with imperium.[39][40]
African campaign
Scipio was elected unanimously to the consulship of 205 BC amid much enthusiasm;[41] he was 31 and still technically too young to be consul.[42] When he entered into office, he demanded that the senate assign him the province of Africa and threatened to take the matter to the popular assemblies if it refused to do so. Despite fierce opposition from the princeps senatus, Quintus Fabius Maximus Verrucosus, the senate bowed to his pressure and he received Sicily with permission to cross into Africa if he wished.[43][44] Fabius' opposition may have been related to jealousy of Scipio's popularity, but also was likely informed by the failed African campaign c. 255 BC under Marcus Atilius Regulus during the First Punic War, which saw the Carthaginians' war efforts renewed.[45] The senate, regardless, assigned Scipio no additional soldiers, leading him to recruit an army of volunteers;[46] Livy reports that from his clients and supporters in Italy, he mustered some 30 warships and 7,000 men.[47]
He spent most of his consulship preparing his troops in Sicily for the invasion of Africa. He captured Locri on the toe of Italy that year, and left one Pleminius in command there.[48] After Pleminius assumed command, he robbed the city's temple and tortured and killed two military tribunes.[49] For these crimes, the senate had Pleminius placed under arrest; Scipio was also implicated but was cleared the next year.[50]
Invasion of Africa
His imperium was prorogued into 205 BC and in that year, he crossed with his men into Africa and besieged Utica before withdrawing and pretending in the winter to negotiate with the Carthaginians.[51] During those pretended negotiations, Scipio mapped out the enemy camps and launched a night attack that was successful in destroying them and killing a large number of the enemy.[32] The armies then fought in the Battle of the Great Plains some time early in the new year (his imperium was prorogued until the war's completion) and after capturing Syphax of Numidia, restored Massinissa to the kingdom.[52] The Carthaginians reacted to the defeat by recalling their generals Hannibal and Mago from Italy and launching their fleet against Scipio's to cut off their supply lines. Scipio was forced into a naval battle near Utica, but was able to avert disaster, losing only some sixty transport ships.[32] Another set of peace negotiations occurred, with the Carthaginians eventually agreeing to abandon all territorial claims in the Mediterranean and beyond, limit her rights to expand in Africa, recognize Massinissa's kingdom, give up all but twenty of her ships, and pay a war indemnity. However, during the negotiations, the Carthaginians – suffering from starvation – attacked a Roman food convoy, leading to protests to be sent and envoys exchanged.[53]
Amid further attempts to remove him from command – one of the consuls of 203 BC, Gnaeus Servilius Caepio, attempted to substitute himself for Scipio to claim credit for the final blow against Carthage;[54] the consuls of 202 BC coveted the African command for the same reason[55] – Scipio refused peace terms at a parley with Hannibal in 202 BC. With the support of Masinissa's Numidian cavalry, the Battle of Zama was fought shortly after; the Romans won [56] and Carthage then again sued for peace.[57]
In the new year, 201 BC, Scipio remained in Africa to conclude negotiations, which saw Carthage's territory kept to the status quo ante bellum, Carthage restore to the Romans all captured goods and persons, Carthaginian disarmament of all but ten triremes, and Carthage needing to ask for Roman permission to make any war. Massinissa's territory in Numidia was to be confirmed; and a war indemnity of 10,000 talents was to be paid over the next fifty years.[58] Although the consul of 201 BC, Gnaeus Cornelius Lentulus attempted to oppose the peace so that he could continue the war in Scipio's place, the peace terms were ratified by the assembly in Rome, bringing the war to a final close.[59]
Return
On his return, Scipio celebrated a triumph over Hannibal, the Carthaginians, and Syphax. There, he took the agnomen Africanus ("the African"), for his victories.[60] By this point, Scipio's career reached far beyond his peers even though he was only in his early thirties.[56] On his return, he deposited some 123,000 pounds of silver into the Roman treasury and distributed 400 asses each to his soldiers.[61]
His popularity among the plebs was also astonishing – the Scipionic legend, which in later forms depicted him a son of Jupiter, – and heralded great political success.[23] This success, however, turned many Roman aristocrats into his enemies, largely to oppose his further aggrandisement or out of jealousy. Even during his consulship, he had been opposed by Fabius Maximus and others, especially after stories circulated of his being saluted as king and god in Spain.[62] His intended role in Roman politics, however, remained traditional.[23]
Later life
Censorship and second consulship
In the year 199 BC, Scipio was elected censor with Publius Aelius Paetus as his colleague. Their censorship was largely unremarkable, but saw Scipio named as princeps senatus, a title which he retained for the next two lustra.[63] After this point, the classicist Howard Hayes Scullard believed that Scipio's political position entered an eclipse.[64] This is disputed.[65]
After the required ten years between consulships had elapsed, Scipio secured election to the consulship of 194 BC. During his second consulship, he wanted to succeed
In 193 BC, Scipio is said to have taken part in two embassies. The first was to Africa, where he was one of three sent to arbitrate a boundary dispute between Carthage and Masinissa: the commission left the matter undecided, possibly on purpose.[69] The second embassy is said to have been to Asia and, on the basis of travel time, could not have happened. During the alleged embassy, Scipio is apocryphally said to have discussed the best generals with Hannibal at Ephesus.[70][71]
War with Antiochus
In 192 BC, Rome declared war on Antiochus,[72] who – after a cold war with the Romans starting from the close of the Second Macedonian War through to 193 BC – had invaded Greece.[73] Antiochus' initial push into Greece was met with little enthusiasm by the locals, who were well-treated in a peaceful and largely open interstate system in the aftermath of the Roman proclamation of Greek freedom. It did not help that the cities that he did take had to be taken by force.[72] The consul of 191 BC, Manius Acilius Glabrio, arrived in the spring and promptly defeated Antiochus at the Battle of Thermopylae – Antiochus lost the battle and was forced back across the Aegean to Ephesus within six months of the war's start.[74]
The consul of 190 BC was Scipio Africanus' brother,
Shortly before Magnesia, Antiochus offered Scipio Africanus a bribe to secure favourable peace terms, which Africanus rejected. At the battle itself, he claimed illness, but was selected to present the Roman peace terms regardless.[23] The credit for the victory accrued to his brother and commander, Lucius. The peace terms presented at Sardis were largely the Roman demands prior to the battle: Antiochus would cede all territory outside the Taurus line (eventually determined to be from Cape Sarpedon in Cilicia through to the river Tanais),[77] pay a war indemnity of 15,000 talents to Rome with a separate 400 talents to Eumenes, all exiles and enemies of Rome would be handed over (including Hannibal) along with twenty hostages (including Antiochus' youngest son).[78]
Trials of the Scipios
The 190s BC saw a re-emergence of attempts by the aristocratic elite to put limits on individual ambitions. The return of the Scipiones to Rome saw claims over Lucius Scipio's triumph disputed: critics thought the Scipiones had been fighting a weak enemy and that the war had actually truly been won a year earlier at Thermopylae. His triumph, however, was approved regardless.[79] Lucius' attempt to secure from the senate a prorogation to oversee the settlement of Asia also was rejected; no exception would be made to the general post-Hannibalic war rule against promagistrates.[80] Lucius Scipio adopted the cognomen Asiagenes[81] and at his triumph brought some 137,420 pounds of silver, 224,000 tetradrachms, 140,000 gold coins, 234 gold crowns, 1231 ivory tusks, and more into the city. His soldiers were granted bonuses of 25 denarii each, with more to officers and cavalry.[82]
These enormous amounts of plunder triggered moral panic at Rome about the possible diversion of those funds to extravagant private use.[83] These troubles related to the broader matter of charting the boundaries of power that magistrates could exercise abroad, especially in relation of monies obtained in war.[84] A confusing mess of stories related to the Scipiones' legal troubles are recorded in the ancient sources.[85]
Scipio Asiagenes was in fact indicted. He was not alone, his successor in Asia – Gnaeus Manlius Vulso – also was brought up on charges. Regardless, the trial forced a full accounting of cash paid by Antiochus to Manlius and Asiagenes. After Asiagenes was fined – either by a special court or by tribunician legislation – he refused to pay the fine, claiming poverty, and was only saved from prison when one of the plebeian tribunes, usually identified as Tiberius Sempronius Gracchus, interceded.[86]
Africanus was around the same time challenged in the senate. A senator demanded that he produce his account-books for the Antiochene campaign and account for the monies allotted to pay his troops. He responded with indignation and declared that he owed no reckoning. Securing the account-books from his brother, he waved them before the senators and then tore them up, asking the rhetorical question as to how the senate could be concerned with a mere 3,000 talents when he had brought 15,000 into the treasury by conquering Spain, Africa, and Asia.[87]
One story, given by Valerius Antias, indicates that one of the tribunes at the urging of Cato the Elder brought charges against Scipio Africanus alleging bribery and theft. Antias then has Scipio respond with a rousing oration detailing his services to the republic and noting that the day is the anniversary of the Battle of Zama. At this notice, he then leads an impromptu procession to sacrifice at the Temple of Jupiter Optimus Maximus amid thunderous applause, leaving the prosecutors embarrassed. This story, however, "generates little confidence".[88]
The legal troubles proved little trouble for the Scipiones, as evidence by Asiagenes' lavish games in 186 and vigorous campaign for the censorship of 184 (he was unsuccessful). Friends of the Scipiones continued to win consular elections. Scipio himself retired to Liternum; "the idea that he retired in semi-exile or ignominy is pure romance".[89]
Death
Scipio retired to his country seat at
It is not clear where Scipio Africanus was buried. There are three main possibilities. The first is the Tomb of the Scipios in Rome. Nothing survives in the literary record documenting his burial there, however.[91] The second is his villa at Liternum: it was later owned by Seneca the Younger, who in a letter expressed his belief that an altar there was Africanus' tomb.[92] The third is the pyramidal Meta Romuli which was ahistorically dubbed the Sepulcrum Scipionis during the Renaissance.[93]
Marriage and issue
Scipio married Aemilia Tertia,[94] daughter of the consul Lucius Aemilius Paullus who fell at Cannae.[95] She was also the sister of another consul, Lucius Aemilius Paullus Macedonicus.[96] Scipio's marriage was fruitful.
They had three sons:
- Gnaeus Cornelius Scipio, who became praetor in 177 BC;
- Lucius Cornelius Scipio, who became praetor in 174 BC; and
- Publius Cornelius Scipio, who was inducted into the augurate in 180 BC.[94]
They also had two daughters. Both were named Cornelia. The elder married Publius Cornelius Scipio Nasica Corculum. The younger Cornelia married Tiberius Sempronius Gracchus and became mother to the Gracchi brothers, Tiberius Gracchus and Gaius Gracchus.[97]
None of his sons had legitimate issue. However, his son Publius adopted the son of Lucius Aemilius Paullus Macedonicus, who became known as Scipio Aemilianus.[98] Scipio's only descendants living through the late Republican period were the descendants of his two daughters. His younger daughter's last surviving child Sempronia, wife and then widow of Scipio Aemilianus – his adoptive grandson[99] – was alive as late as 102 BC.[citation needed]
Personality and traits
Roman opinions of Scipio
Scipio was a man of great intellect and culture who could speak and read Greek, wrote his own memoirs in Greek and became also noted for his introduction of the clean shaven face fashion among the Romans according to the example of Alexander the Great instead of wearing the beard. This man's fashion lasted until the time of emperor Hadrian (r. 117–138), then was revived by Constantine the Great (r. 306–337) and lasted until the reign of emperor Phocas (r. 602–610) who again introduced the wearing of the beard among Roman emperors.[100] He also enjoyed the reputation of being a graceful orator, the secret of his sway being his deep self-confidence and radiant sense of fairness.[101]
To his political opponents, he was often harsh and arrogant, but towards others singularly gracious and sympathetic. His
He often visited the temple of
The elder Scipio was a spiritual man as well as a soldier and statesman, and was a priest of Mars. The ability which he is supposed to have possessed is called by the old name, "second sight", and he is supposed to have had prescient dreams in which he saw the future. Livy describes this belief as it was perceived then, without offering his opinion as to its veracity. Polybius made a case that Scipio's successes resulted from good planning, rational thinking and intelligence, which he said was a higher sign of the gods' favour than prophetic dreams. Polybius suggested that people had only said that Scipio had supernatural powers because they had not appreciated the natural mental gifts which facilitated Scipio's achievements.[101]
The continence of Scipio
The Roman historian Valerius Maximus, writing in the first century AD, alleged that Scipio Africanus had a weakness for beautiful women, and knowing this, some of his soldiers presented him with a beautiful young woman captured in New Carthage. The woman turned out to be the fiancée of an important Iberian chieftain[102] and Scipio chose to act as a general and not an ordinary soldier in restoring her, virtue and ransom intact, to her fiancé.[103] This episode was frequently depicted by painters of the Renaissance and early modern era as the Continence of Scipio.
According to Valerius Maximus, Scipio had a relationship from c. 191 BC with one of his own serving girls, which his wife magnanimously overlooked.
Lost works
Scipio is said to have written his memoirs in Greek, but those are lost (perhaps destroyed) along with the history written by his elder son and namesake (adoptive father of Scipio Aemilianus) and his Life by Plutarch. As a result, contemporary accounts of his life, particularly his childhood and youth, are virtually non-existent. Even Plutarch's account of Scipio's life, written much later, has been lost.
What remains are accounts of his doings in Polybius, Livy's Histories (which say little about his private life), supplemented with the surviving histories of Appian and Cassius Dio, and the odd anecdote in Valerius Maximus. Of these, Polybius was the closest to Scipio Africanus in age and in connections, but his narrative may be biased by his friendship with Scipio's close relatives and that the primary source of his information about Africanus came from one of his best friends, Gaius Laelius.
Legacy
Military
Scipio is considered by many to be one of Rome's greatest generals. Skillful alike in strategy and in tactics, he had also the faculty of inspiring his soldiers with confidence. Livy reports that, as a Roman commissioner to Ephesus following the defeat of Antiochus III, on meeting the exiled Hannibal, Scipio took the opportunity to ask Hannibal's opinion of the "greatest commander," to which Hannibal named Alexander the Great as the first and Pyrrhus as the second.[105]
Livy continues, "On Scipio's again asking him whom he regarded as the third, Hannibal, without any hesitation, replied, 'Myself.' Scipio smiled and asked, 'What would you say if you had vanquished me?' 'In that case,' replied Hannibal, 'I should say that I surpassed Alexander and Pyrrhus, and all other commanders in the world.' Scipio was delighted with the turn which the speaker had with true Carthaginian adroitness given to his answer, and the unexpected flattery it conveyed, because Hannibal had set him apart from the ordinary run of military captains as an incomparable commander."[105]
Political
Scipio was the first Roman general to expand Roman territories outside Italy and islands around the Italian mainland. He conquered the Carthaginian territory of
Scipio did not introduce Greek ideas or art to the Romans, but his ardent support for the Greek way of life coupled with his own charisma had its inevitable impact. Less beneficially, the Scipios may have led the way in the inevitable chasm that grew up between the Roman elite and the Roman masses, in terms of the way the elite was educated and lived and in the amount of wealth they possessed.
Scipio supported land distribution for his veterans in a tradition harking back to the earliest days of the Republic, yet his actions were seen as somewhat radical by conservatives. In being a successful general who demanded lands for his soldiers, Scipio may have led the way for later generals such as
The relatives of Scipio continued to dominate the republic for a couple of generations. This domination came to an end in the tumults between the
After the fall of the Gracchi, the house of Caecilius became more prominent. However, the Scipiones maintained their aristocratic lustre, providing the consular general who unsuccessfully prevented Sulla's second march on Rome and Metellus Scipio whose daughter was the last wife of Pompey the Great, and who took over command in the civil war against Julius Caesar after the death of Pompey. The granddaughter of Gaius Gracchus, Fulvia, was also unusually prominent for a Roman woman in the affairs of the late republic, marrying Publius Clodius, Gaius Curio and Mark Antony in turn. At a later date, some Roman emperors claimed descent from Scipio Africanus.
Cultural depictions
Classical literature
Scipio appears or is mentioned in passing in
Medieval literature
Scipio is mentioned four times in
Renaissance literature and art
Scipio is the hero of
Scipio is mentioned in
Music
Publius Cornelius Scipio was the title character of a number of Italian operas composed during the baroque period of music, including settings by George Frideric Handel, Leonardo Vinci, and Carlo Francesco Pollarolo. The march from Handel's setting, entitled Scipione, remains the regimental slow march of the British Grenadier Guards. Scipio is also referenced in the Italian national anthem.
Film and television
Shortly before Italy's invasion of Ethiopia, Benito Mussolini commissioned an epic film depicting the exploits of Scipio. Scipione l'africano, written by Carmine Gallone, won the Mussolini Cup for the greatest Italian film at the 1937 Venice Film Festival.
In 1971 Luigi Magni scripted and directed the movie Scipione, detto anche l'Africano (Scipio, aka "the African"), starring Marcello Mastroianni, Vittorio Gassman, Silvana Mangano and Woody Strode, in which the historical events are portrayed in a light and satirical mode, with some intentional references to the political events of the time in which the movie was made.
In the 1983 BBC mini-series The Cleopatras, Scipio is portrayed by Geoffrey Whitehead.
In the 2000 film Gladiator, the first battle in the Colosseum is meant to re-enact Scipio Africanus's battle of Zama against Hannibal's barbarian horde. In the film, Maximus ruins the re-enactment by leading the gladiators, who are meant to represent Hannibal's forces, to victory over Scipio's legionaries.
In the 2006 television film Hannibal, he is portrayed by British actor Shaun Dingwall, notably at the battles of Cannae and Zama.
Video games
Scipio features as a playable character, represented by a
Offices
The following table is derived from Broughton 1952, p. 555 unless otherwise indicated.
Year (BC) | Office | Colleague | Comment |
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216 | Military tribune |
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213 | Curule aedile | Marcus Cornelius Cethegus[112] | |
216–210 | Proconsul | Spain | |
205 | Consul | Publius Licinius Crassus Dives[48] | Assigned Sicily extra sortem, then further assigned Africa[48] |
204–201 | Proconsul | Continuously prorogued in Africa; victor of Zama in 202[113] | |
199 | Censor | Publius Aelius Paetus[114] | |
199–189 | Princeps senatus | Chosen princeps senatus in his own censorship[114] | |
194 | Consul | Tiberius Sempronius Longus[115] | Fought the Boii and Ligurians[66] |
193 | Legate (ambassador) | Sent to Africa to settle boundary dispute and thence possibly to Asia[116] | |
190 | Legate (lieutenant) | Served under his brother, Lucius Cornelius Scipio Asiaticus[117] | |
184? | Legate? | Possibly legate in Etruria[118] |
See also
- Scipio–Paullus–Gracchus family tree
Notes
- ^ Etcheto 2012, pp. 274–278.
- ^ Zmeskal 2009, p. 97.
- ^ Zmeskal 2009, p. 92. Barbatus was consul in 298 and censor in 280; Lucius was consul in 259 and 258 BC.
- ^ Zmeskal 2009, pp. 96–97.
- ^ Zmeskal 2009, p. 96.
- ^ Zmeskal 2009, p. 221.
- ^ Briscoe 1989, p. 45.
- ^ Broughton 1951, p. 237.
- ^ Briscoe 1989, p. 49.
- civic crown for the deed. Goldsworthy 2003, p. 53, citing Plin. NH, 16.14.
- ^ a b Goldsworthy 2003, p. 53.
- ^ Broughton 1951, p. 251.
- ^ Livy, 22.53. See also, on Metellus, Broughton 1951, p. 260.
- JSTOR 41529611. Ridley cites Scullard 1929, p. 38.
- ^ Broughton 1951, p. 263. Livy, 25.2.6, wrongly dates this to 212 BC; patricians held the curule aedileship in odd years, implying 213. Broughton also dismisses the "story that Scipio won election both for himself and his brother" – originating in Polyb., 10.4–5 – as "intrinsically improbable" and notes its general scholarly rejection. Broughton 1951, p. 267 n. 4.
- ^ Livy, 25.2. Livy also records Scipio's response: "If the Quirites are unanimous in their desire to appoint me aedile, I am quite old enough".
- ^ Briscoe 1989, p. 57.
- ^ Briscoe 1989, pp. 57–59.
- ^ Briscoe 1989, p. 59, citing Livy, 35.32–39.
- ^ a b Broughton 1951, p. 280.
- ^ a b c Goldsworthy 2003, p. 56.
- ^ Briscoe 1989, p. 59; Broughton 1951, p. 280.
- ^ a b c d e f Briscoe 2012.
- ^ Briscoe 1989, p. 59, citing Livy, 26.17–20.
- ^ Polyb., 10.15.4–5.
- OCLC 1182021748.
- ^ Briscoe 1989, pp. 59–60.
- ^ Briscoe 1989, p. 55, citing Livy, 26.38–39, 27.1–2, 27.12–16.
- ^ Briscoe 1989, p. 60, citing Polyb., 11.20–24; Livy, 28.1–28.4.4, 12.10–16, 19–21.
- ^ Briscoe 1989, p. 60.
- ^ Briscoe 1989, p. 62.
- ^ a b c Briscoe 1989, p. 63.
- ^ Briscoe 1989, pp. 60–61.
- ^ Canto, Alicia M (2004). "Itálica, sedes natalis de Adriano. 31 textos históricos y argumentos para una secular polémica (2004)". Athenaeum (in Spanish). 92: 367–408.
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- ^ Briscoe 1989, pp. 60–61, citing Livy, 28.38.1 for the turnover in command.
- ^ Broughton 1951, pp. 299–300, noting Lentulus was another privatus cum imperio; both Lentulus and Acidinus were prorogued pro consule. Lentulus and Acidinus are those reported at Livy, 28.38.1; Polyb., 11.33.8 instead has Scipio leave Silanus and Lucius Marcius Septimius – one of Scipio's legates – in command.
- ^ Broughton 1951, p. 299, citing Livy, 28.38.4, 31.20.3; Polyb., 11.33.7; App. Hisp., 38. Broughton also suggests the possibility of an ovatio.
- ^ Gruen 1995, p. 61 n. 3, citing Livy, 28.38.2–4; Val. Max., 2.8.5; Dio, 17.57.6.
- S2CID 163561022.
- ^ Livy, 28.38. "[A]ll the centuries voted amidst much enthusiasm for Scipio... It is recorded that a larger number of voters took part in that election than at any other time during the war. They had come from all parts, not only to give their votes, but also to get sight of Scipio".
- ^ Goldsworthy 2003, p. 51.
- ^ Drogula 2015, pp. 285, 298–299 n. 4, citing Livy, 28.40.1–2 and Plut. Fab., 25.2.
- ^ Briscoe 1989, p. 63; Broughton 1951, p. 301.
- ^ Goldsworthy 2003, p. 75.
- ^ Drogula 2015, p. 136.
- ^ Livy, 28.45–46.
- ^ a b c Broughton 1951, p. 301.
- ^ Broughton 1951, p. 304.
- ^ Goldsworthy 2003, p. 76; Broughton 1951, p. 308.
- ^ Broughton 1951, p. 308, citing Livy, 29.24–36, 30.3.3–30.4.12.
- ^ Briscoe 1989, p. 63; Broughton 1951, p. 312.
- ^ Briscoe 1989, pp. 63–64.
- ^ Drogula 2015, p. 313, citing Livy, 30.24.1–4; Broughton 1951, p. 311
- ^ Drogula 2015, p. 134 n. 11, citing Livy, 30.27.1–4. Scipio's position was regardless confirmed by plebiscite in Rome. Broughton 1951, pp. 317, 320.
- ^ a b Goldsworthy 2003, p. 76.
- ^ Briscoe 1989, p. 64; Broughton 1951, p. 317.
- ^ Briscoe 1989, pp. 64–65.
- ^ Briscoe 1989, p. 65; Broughton 1951, p. 319.
- ^ Broughton 1951, p. 321, citing Polyb., 16.23.5.
- ^ Gruen 1995, p. 70, citing Livy, 30.45.3.
- ^ Briscoe 1989, pp. 74, 73; Briscoe 2012.
- ^ Broughton 1951, p. 327; Briscoe 2012.
- ^ Scullard 1970, p. 191.
- JSTOR 293271. Gruen writes also "there is no hint of an eclipse" politically and calls Scullard's inference that there was one "unfounded".
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- ^ Briscoe 2012; Broughton 1951, p. 348.
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- Chisholm, Hugh, ed. (1911). "Scipio § Publius Cornelius Scipio Africanus". Encyclopædia Britannica. Vol. 24 (11th ed.). Cambridge University Press. pp. 405–406.
- Jacobs, John (28 June 2023). "Review of: L'area archeologica del Sepolcro degli Scipioni a Roma: analisi delle strutture di eta imperiale e tardo antica". Bryn Mawr Classical Review. ISSN 1055-7660.
- Orosius. History against the pagans.
External links
- Media related to Publius Cornelius Scipio Africanus Major at Wikimedia Commons
- Quotations related to Scipio Africanus at Wikiquote
- Works by or about Scipio Africanus at Wikisource