Person236 BC – 183 BC
Scipio Africanus
Also called: Scipio the Elder, Publius Cornelius Scipio
Roman general of the Second Punic War who carried the fight to Spain and Africa and defeated Hannibal at Zama in 202 BC
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Rome and Carthage fought three wars for mastery of the western Mediterranean. Having survived Hannibal’s invasion of Italy, Rome destroyed Carthage and took control of the Mediterranean.
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In 202 BC a Roman army under Scipio defeated Hannibal’s Carthaginians at Zama in North Africa, ending the Second Punic War.
People who appear alongside
- Hannibal247 BC – 183 BC
Carthaginian general who crossed the Alps into Italy in the Second Punic War and crushed the Romans at Cannae, but was defeated at Zama
Themes this person appears in
- Greece and Rome2000 BC – AD 476
From the Aegean civilisation to the fall of the Western Roman Empire — the classical civilisation built by the democracy of the polis and the Roman republic and empire