Hannibal and Scipio
parallel lives
- ISBN: 9781009453356
- Editorial: Cambridge University Press
- Fecha de la edición: 2024
- Lugar de la edición: Cambridge . Reino Unido
- Encuadernación: Cartoné
- Medidas: 24 cm
- Nº Pág.: 516
- Idiomas: Inglés
The Second Punic War between Carthage and Rome began in 218 BCE and ended in 202 with the dramatic defeat at the Battle of Zama of Carthage's commander Hannibal by his adversary, the Roman Scipio. The two men were born about a decade apart but died in the same year, 183, following brilliant but ultimately unhappy careers. In this absorbing joint biography, celebrated historian Simon Hornblower reveals how the trajectory of each general illuminates his counterpart. Their individual journeys help us comprehend the momentous historical period which they shared, and which in distinct but interconnected ways they helped to shape. Hornblower interweaves his central military and political narrative with lively treatments of high politics, religious motivations and manipulations, overseas commands, hellenisation, and his subjects' ancient and modern reception. This gripping portrait of a momentous rivalry will delight readers of biography and military history and scholars and students of antiquity alike.
1. Hannibal and Scipio on themselves
2. Origins: Hannibal:
247–221 BCE, birth to age 26 years, Scipio:
235–218, birth to aged 17 years
3. Hannibal victorious:
221–216, aged 26–31 years
4. Scipio 216–205, aged 19–30 years
5. Hannibal frustrated in Italy, 216–208, aged 31–39
6. Overseas commands: freedoms and perils
7. Politics and factions at Carthage and Rome
8. The tipping-point: the battle at the Metaurus or Sena, 207, Hannibal aged 40
9. Hannibal and Scipio meet and fight at last: Zama, 202, aged 45 and 33
10. The religion of Hannibal and Scipio
11. Scipio triumphant, 202–193, aged 33–42
12. Hannibal as reformer at Carthage, 196, aged 51
13. Hannibal, Scipio, and the Greek world
14. Hannibal flees to Antiochus III
his intrigues:
195–3, aged 52–54
15. Hannibal and Scipio as military advisers: Magnesia, 190, aged 57 and 45
16. Hannibal and Scipio: the military comparison
17. Hannibal's years of wandering, 190–183, aged 57–64
18. The downfall and death of Scipio, 187–183, aged 48–52
19. Afterlives
20. Conclusion: parallel lives.
