...Charles Goldberg examines criticism of the conduct of Roman elite men in the political and military spheres during the 160’s BCE, both in prose historical works as well as on the stage. He then investigate how one politician, Publius Cornelius Scipio Aemilianus, navigated this challenging political...

... as they have on previous occasions, he says he will consider his own interests and will not obey their authority. The same threat was made by his colleague Scipio, who said that Pompey was not inclined to desert the republic if the Senate followed him; but if it did not back him, it would in vain solicit his...

...Samuel Agbamu discusses the reception of the figure of Scipio Africanus in the formulation of an idealised, Fascist Italian masculinity. The primary focus is Carmine Gallone’s 1937 film Scipione l’Africano, a historical epic based on Scipio’s victory over Hannibal at the Battle...