Scipio Africanus

Alexander Acimovic  / iUniverse, Inc, 2007

Reviewed by John Jacobs, 

...London, 1926); H. H. Scullard, Scipio Africanus in the Second Punic War (Cambridge, 1930); R. M. Haywood, Studies on Scipio Africanus (Baltimore, 1933); and H. H. Scullard, Scipio Africanus: Soldier...

From Republic to Empire. Scipio Africanus in the Punica of Silius Italicus

Raymond Marks  / Peter Lang, 2005

Reviewed by Elizabeth Kennedy Klaassen, 

Book-length studies of Silius Italicus are rare, and in English rarer still. In English, Ahl, Davis and Pomeroy’s lengthy article on the whole Punica appeared in 1986, preceded by von...

Magna Mater Kult und Sibyllinen. Kulttransfer und annalistische Geschichtsfiktion. Innsbrucker Beiträge zur Kulturwissenschaft, Sonderheft 119

Helmut Berneder  / Institut für Sprachen und Literaturen der Universität Innsbruck, 2004

Reviewed by Renate Kurzmann, 

...certain Publius Cornelius Scipio Nasica, consul of 191 BCE and a cousin of Scipio Africanus. He shows that it is likely that this event was a later invention since Nasica...

Le relazioni diplomatiche di Roma. Volume VI. Dalla spedizione degli Scipioni in Asia alla pace di Apamea (190 – 188 a.C.). Prassi diplomatiche dello imperialismo romano, 2

Filippo Canali de Rossi  / Scienze e lettere, 2017

Reviewed by Paul Burton, 

...L. Scipio and his brother P. Scipio Africanus to Heraclea-by-Latmos contains an unambiguous promise of patronage (item 226). So, too, according to Canali De Rossi, does Scipio Africanus’ pledge to...

Morals and Villas in Seneca’s Letters: Places to Dwell

John Henderson  / Cambridge University Press, 2004

Reviewed by Amanda Wilcox, 

...Letter 11 (17-18): Seneca represents himself and his nephew Lucan as the heirs of Cato the Elder’s traditional Roman austerity and Scipio Africanus’ heroism, and also, respectively, as the heirs...

1995.05.09, Walsh (ed.), Livy 38

Livy., P. G. (Patrick Gerard) Walsh  / Aris & Phillips, 1993

Reviewed by Dennis Glew, 

...to slip-ups of every sort. Even when W. acknowledges that the historian has dealt with a difficult, controverted subject (the trial, death and tomb of Scipio Africanus) with energy, he...

The Roman Hannibal: Remembering the Enemy in Silius Italicus’ ‘Punica’

Claire Stocks  / Liverpool University Press, 2014

Reviewed by John Jacobs, 

...the Hannibalic War (Oxford, 2010); see BMCR 2013.10.24. 3. R. Marks, From Republic to Empire. Scipio Africanus in the Punica of Silius Italicus (Frankfurt, 2005); see BMCR 2006.08.31. 4. For...

Terenzio e i suoi ‘nobiles’. Invenzione e realtà di un controverso legame. Testi e studi di cultura classica, 44

Alessio Umbrico  / Edizioni ETS, 2010

Reviewed by T. H. M. Gellar-Goad, 

...identifies as the Scipio of Porcius Licinus’ fragment—fostered in the public eye his connections both to the Scipio Africanus and to Jupiter Capitolinus. Thus we have in Aemilianus a Jupiter,...

Mastering the West: Rome and Carthage at War. Ancient warfare and civilization

Dexter Hoyos  / Oxford University Press, 2015

Reviewed by Fred K. Drogula, 

...calling off the planned invasion of Africa in 218 BC, but the appointment of Scipio Africanus to the Spanish command in 210 BC and the Roman victory in the Battle...

1995.07.06, Eckstein, Moral Vision in the Histories of Polybius

Arthur M. Eckstein  / University of California Press, 1995

Reviewed by Craige Champion, 

...evaluation of action when … simultaneously moral and pragmatic conduct will not be possible?” (p. 85). Among E.’s Machiavellian passages, the interpretation of Scipio Africanus’ deceitful truce in preparation for...

Cato. On Farming. De Agricultura: A Modern Translation with Commentary

Marcus Porcius Cato, Andrew Dalby  / Prospect Books, 1998

Reviewed by J. Churchill, 

...consulship of 195 BCE campaigning in Spain, was succeeded in that province by Scipio Africanus; in fact Cato was succeeded by P. Cornelius Scipio Nasica, Africanus’ cousin (see Astin 51-2)....

Roman Siege Works

Gwyn Davies  / Tempus, 2006

Reviewed by Duncan B. Campbell, 

...later 3rd century BC, and it is only a theory that he was “writing in the 240s BC for the Ptolemaic army” (16); “Scipio Africanus the Younger” is usually known...

Petrarch: Everywhere a Wanderer

Christopher S. Celenza  / Reaktion Books, 2017

Reviewed by Vibeke Roggen, 

...Hannibal”, and “the Roman hero Scipio Africanus, who defeated the North African general Hannibal during the Punic Wars …”. No, not the final Punic war, and not the Punic wars...

Der Stil ist der Mensch

Martin Helzle  / Teubner, 1996

Reviewed by William J. Dominik, 

...of glory, to follow them, Varro is a turbidus orator who employs hyperbolic terms and images. Scipio Africanus, like his father Publius Scipio, employs terms from the register of religion...

Les Scipions: Famille et pouvoir à Rome à l’époque républicaine. Scripta antiqua, 45

Henri Etcheto  / Ausonius Éditions, 2012

Reviewed by Jesper Carlsen, 

...its two most famous members, Scipio Africanus and Scipio Aemilianus, exist a thorough study of the Cornelii Scipiones with a new methodological approach and new results is very welcome.4 Les...

The Augustinian Epic, Petrarch to Milton

J. Christopher (James Christopher) Warner  / University of Michigan Press, 2005

Reviewed by Antony Augoustakis, 

...of Scipio Africanus. In fact, the author claims that the unfinished status of the poem points to Petrarch’s compliance with Augustine’s demand, while at the same time the poet affirms...

Hostages and Hostage-Taking in the Roman Empire

Joel Allen  / Cambridge University Press, 2006

Reviewed by Everett L. Wheeler, 

...but his cases mix capture of another state’s hostages (Scipio Africanus’ protection of Spanish females, who were Carthaginian hostages and became Roman POWs, 209 BCE, deception and possible violation of...

1997.8.2, Vishnia, State, Society and Popular Leaders in Mid-Republican Rome

Rachel Feig Vishnia  / Routledge, 1996

Reviewed by Craige Champion, 

...upon them by priesthoods in order to assume magisterial duties (118-120). The election of Scipio Africanus in the Hannibalic War served as the prototype here, and these challenges to customary...

Crisis and Constitutionalism: Roman Political Thought from the Fall of the Republic to the Age of Revolution

Benjamin Straumann  / Oxford University Press, 2016

Reviewed by Ayelet Haimson Lushkov, 

...its foundation. People like Scipio Africanus and Flamininus stretched the limits of what Roman society was willing to tolerate, and while they were more or less successfully brought back to...

Classical Constructions. Papers in Memory of Don Fowler, Classicist and Epicurean

S. J. Heyworth, Peta Fowler, S. J. Harrison  / Oxford University Press, 2007

Reviewed by John Henderson, 

...Roman-style. Here’s how you write Roman triumph (?triumph?). Segue straight to the Africa in Scipio Africanus, where Matt Leigh tracks Lucanesque Caesarism smiling serene within Petrarch’s prefiguration of all Czars...