Scipio Africanus
Alexander Acimovic / iUniverse, Inc, 2007
...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...
BMCR 2006.08.31From Republic to Empire. Scipio Africanus in the Punica of Silius Italicus
Raymond Marks / Peter Lang, 2005
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...
BMCR 2005.05.25Magna 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
...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...
BMCR 2017.11.24Le 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
...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...
BMCR 2006.11.40Morals and Villas in Seneca’s Letters: Places to Dwell
John Henderson / Cambridge University Press, 2004
...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...
BMCR 1995.05.091995.05.09, Walsh (ed.), Livy 38
Livy., P. G. (Patrick Gerard) Walsh / Aris & Phillips, 1993
...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...
BMCR 2011.12.17Terenzio e i suoi ‘nobiles’. Invenzione e realtà di un controverso legame. Testi e studi di cultura classica, 44
Alessio Umbrico / Edizioni ETS, 2010
...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,...
BMCR 2015.09.40Mastering the West: Rome and Carthage at War. Ancient warfare and civilization
Dexter Hoyos / Oxford University Press, 2015
...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...
BMCR 2015.02.25The Roman Hannibal: Remembering the Enemy in Silius Italicus’ ‘Punica’
Claire Stocks / Liverpool University Press, 2014
...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...
BMCR 1995.07.061995.07.06, Eckstein, Moral Vision in the Histories of Polybius
Arthur M. Eckstein / University of California Press, 1995
...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...
BMCR 2007.05.32Roman Siege Works
Gwyn Davies / Tempus, 2006
...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...
BMCR 1999.07.18Cato. On Farming. De Agricultura: A Modern Translation with Commentary
Marcus Porcius Cato, Andrew Dalby / Prospect Books, 1998
...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)....
BMCR 2018.12.06Petrarch: Everywhere a Wanderer
Christopher S. Celenza / Reaktion Books, 2017
...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...
BMCR 1998.01.03Der Stil ist der Mensch
Martin Helzle / Teubner, 1996
...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...
BMCR 2013.06.21Les Scipions: Famille et pouvoir à Rome à l’époque républicaine. Scripta antiqua, 45
Henri Etcheto / Ausonius Éditions, 2012
...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...
BMCR 2006.05.04The Augustinian Epic, Petrarch to Milton
J. Christopher (James Christopher) Warner / University of Michigan Press, 2005
...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...
BMCR 2007.02.04Hostages and Hostage-Taking in the Roman Empire
Joel Allen / Cambridge University Press, 2006
...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...
BMCR 1997.08.021997.8.2, Vishnia, State, Society and Popular Leaders in Mid-Republican Rome
Rachel Feig Vishnia / Routledge, 1996
...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...
BMCR 2017.01.49Crisis and Constitutionalism: Roman Political Thought from the Fall of the Republic to the Age of Revolution
Benjamin Straumann / Oxford University Press, 2016
...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...
BMCR 2008.04.35Classical Constructions. Papers in Memory of Don Fowler, Classicist and Epicurean
S. J. Heyworth, Peta Fowler, S. J. Harrison / Oxford University Press, 2007
...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...