... speeches in historical texts Macedonian War and aftermath First Sardinia Sicily Aetolia ager publicus Cornelius Scipio Africanus P Hannibal Illyria Wars with Rome Livy Punic War Third Macedonian War and aftermath Second Ptolemy V Epiphanes Attica Nicanor’s raid on Isthmian Games Homer...

...Polybius' account of his friendship with Scipio Aemilianus has generated fierce controversy concerning whether or not there was a 'Scipionic circle'. Instead of the extreme positions which have characterized either side of this debate, Scipio is better seen as the product of a milieu where...

...This chapter centres on the dynamic between Hannibal and Scipio (Africanus), considering how both are styled by Silius as the symbols of Carthage and Rome respectively. Scipio's position as the leading man for Rome is affirmed by his trip to the underworld in Book 13 and the subsequent divine...

... the nature and impact of the measures that he enacted to open up political life and rescue the state's finances from ruin. These reforms proved enduring, but his domestic enemies soon colluded with leading men at Rome, though not Scipio, to force him to flee Carthage for ever. Appian Barcid family...

...This chapter traces the genesis of the ruin gazer scenario to Polybios’s eyewitness report about the brutal conquest of Carthage. Having theorized the rise and fall of empires, Polybios concludes The Histories with a scene connecting Scipio, the Roman conqueror, Hannibal, the barbarian enemy...

... “Dream of Scipio.” After mentioning Pythagoras and Plato on universal harmony, Du Vair goes on to quote Cicero’s account more thoroughly, citing “ce grand Scipion,” whose flight to the heavens allows him to actually hear the harmony of the spheres (“ceste harmonie celeste”), caused by the sound...

...Despite Friends’ rules against marrying a deceased sister’s husband, Amy Kirby married Isaac Post in 1828 and became stepmother to Hannah’s two children. Escaping disciplinary action, she moved to Isaac’s farm in Ledyard, New York, and immersed herself in the Scipio Hicksite Meeting. While Amy...

..., and maintaining the state religion. To better understand the Roman ruling elite's religious behaviors, the chapter examines the military juncture during the First Roman–Syrian War, and particularly the action of Publius Cornelius Scipio Africanus at a critical moment in the campaign against Antiochus III. It also...

... the physics of music and its relevance to the texts studied. This chapter studies Cicero’s Somnium Scipionis (Dream of Scipio), from the sixth book of his Republic. Particular emphasis is placed on the passage of the Somnium that describes...

... imagines wax masks Pliny the Elder Caesar Gaius Julius equites equestrians funerary rites Hannibal industry Pompeius Magnus Gnaeus Pompey Scipio Africanus Publius Cornelius sculpture trade assidui citizenship law patron‐client relationship Twelve Tables welfare coinage Epirus Gaul Gauls...

...This chapter explores the character Hannibal in Silius' Punica. It argues that it is Hannibal's compelling, meta-poetic, absent-presence in Scipio's triumphal parade that asserts his power over Silius' epic. If the play of textual temporality, and of aperture and closure...

... historical such incident seems to be P. Scipio Nasica’s murder of Tiberius Gracchus in the interests of maintaining the res publica salva, which was followed a decade later by the formalization of this concern in the senatus consultum ultimum, first issued against Tiberius’s...

... dramatic ways. army Roman emotion ‘basic’ or universal reconciliation regret sincerity of remorse Curtius Josephus Plutarch Tacitus inconstancy Dio Livy mistakes and remorse shame Caesar Drusus Fabius Maximus Germanicus Scipio Tiberius Diodorus Silius Italicus Minucius Thermus error...

...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...

... treats him as a philosophical warrior. He advises princes to read Xenophon’s Life of Cyrus, which sheds a critical light on the actions of his Roman imitator Scipio. This intellectual ‘hunting’ proves as important for princely defences as the physical kind. contempt hunting knowledge peace...

... ambiguous use of ancient and modern examples, including a provocative contrast between Scipio and Hannibal and apparently high praise for Cesare Borgia. The chapter poses the question: does ‘cruelty well-used’ on Machiavelli’s criteria deserve the name of ‘cruelty’ – or virtuous ‘severity’? Borgia Cesare...

... (such as the Guelph cult of Scipio Africanus), and the patronage of René’s Venetian ally Jacopo Antonio Marcello. Discussions follow of the Carmen’s literary context, particularly a related panegyric of René, and social context, especially as relates to the network around the school of Guarino...

... 12. It also speculates on the associations of Seneca's supposed recent return from Campania: the epistolary Seneca had represented himself traveling around the Campanian moral landscape, and in letter 86 had recounted his visit to the ruined villa at Liternum where Scipio Africanus lived out...

... consul ‘defensive imperialism’ gloria Pyrrhus of Epirus Syracuse pax deorum Rome city praetor provincial government quaestor taxation Hannibal morality religion Gauls Cannae battle dictator Fabius Maximus Cunctator Quintus magistrates Archimedes gladius phalanx pilum Scipio...

...’ Hannibal Philip V of Macedon popular assemblies Pyrrhus of Epirus senatorial aristocracy army Corinth Flamininus Titus Quinctius gloria phalanx Plutarch Scipio Africanus Publius Cornelius Antiochus III of Syria religion taxation art Italy Magna Graecia morality slaves Cato the Elder...