Scipio Aemilianus
Roman politician and general (185-129 BC) · Politicians · Lived 185 BC to 129 BC · aged 56
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Something wrong?He finished what his grandfather started: the general who walked through Carthage as it burned, block by block, in 146 BC, ending the Third Punic War by erasing the city from the map.
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Comic History of Rome p 240 Scipio Aemilianus cramming himself for a Speech after a hearty Supper
BL Harley 4917 Cicéron Fol 4 Caton avec Scipio Aemilianus et Gaius Laelius Sapiens
Cristoforo di Bindoccio, Meo di Pero - Wheel of Barlaam; Wheel of Aristotle with the Cardinal Virtues; the Judgement of Solomon - Google Art Project
Darstellung aus dem 19. Jahrhundert - Publius Cornelius Scipio Aemilianus in der Bildmitte.jpg?width=1200)
Figures de l'histoire de la république romaine accompagnées d'un précis historique ou Tableau philosophique et politique de l'origine des progrès et de la décadence de la liberté chez les... - btv1b550033070 (127 of 206).jpg?width=1200)
Figures de l'histoire de la république romaine accompagnées d'un précis historique ou Tableau philosophique et politique de l'origine des progrès et de la décadence de la liberté chez les... - btv1b550033070 (129 of 206).jpg?width=1200)
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Figures de l'histoire de la république romaine accompagnées d'un précis historique ou Tableau philosophique et politique de l'origine des progrès et de la décadence de la liberté chez les... - btv1b550033070 (137 of 206)Awards
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Born in 185 BC into Roman aristocracy, Scipio Aemilianus carved his reputation in two distant sieges. The first was Carthage, where he commanded the final assault that leveled Rome's ancient rival after a three-year struggle. The second was Numantia in Spain, another brutal endgame that closed a long war. Between campaigns he kept company with writers and thinkers - Polybius, the Greek historian, orbited his household - and back in Rome he stood against his brother-in-law Tiberius Gracchus's land reforms, a rift that ran along the fault line splitting the Republic. He died in 129 BC, the night before he was to speak on the matter, and whether it was natural or something darker, no one could say for certain.
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