GOHARY Laurent.
Scipio Africanus.
Realia / The Beautiful Letters
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| N° d'inventaire | 29839 |
| Format | 14 X 22.5 |
| Détails | 416 p., paperback. |
| Publication | Paris, 2023 |
| Etat | Nine |
| ISBN | 9782251454665 |
So what would our time have been like if Rome had not been saved, after the Battle of Cannae in 216 BC, by a man who has fallen into oblivion: Publius Cornelius Scipio. Nicknamed the Africanus after his victory over Hannibal at Zama, he occupies a prominent place among the heroes of the Roman Republic. Far from the idealized image imagined by Poussin or Mozart, the character had a darker dimension than tradition has allowed it to appear. Often calculating, sometimes cruel, devious, but also visionary, charismatic, generous, and a skilled diplomat, this man, who transgressed many of the rules of the Republic, nevertheless had the temerity necessary to save it from its worst enemy. He knew how to learn cunning from Hannibal to better defeat him on his own ground.
A precursor to Caesar, he modernized the Roman army and its tactics. A philhellene, he introduced more Greek culture than is commonly believed into a still conservative Rome. Scipio also gave the Republic the beginnings of control over Spain, Africa, and Asia, thus inaugurating a Romanization that tolerated other cultures on the condition that they submitted to Rome. But he suffered a terrible fall, a testament to the ingratitude of a homeland that feared the very shadow of kings. To the point that posterity often preferred the luminous renown of his fierce adversary.
A precursor to Caesar, he modernized the Roman army and its tactics. A philhellene, he introduced more Greek culture than is commonly believed into a still conservative Rome. Scipio also gave the Republic the beginnings of control over Spain, Africa, and Asia, thus inaugurating a Romanization that tolerated other cultures on the condition that they submitted to Rome. But he suffered a terrible fall, a testament to the ingratitude of a homeland that feared the very shadow of kings. To the point that posterity often preferred the luminous renown of his fierce adversary.
A precursor to Caesar, he modernized the Roman army and its tactics. A philhellene, he introduced more Greek culture than is commonly believed into a still conservative Rome. Scipio also gave the Republic the beginnings of control over Spain, Africa, and Asia, thus inaugurating a Romanization that tolerated other cultures on the condition that they submitted to Rome. But he suffered a terrible fall, a testament to the ingratitude of a homeland that feared the very shadow of kings. To the point that posterity often preferred the luminous renown of his fierce adversary.