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Scipio Africanus
Roman general and politician (236/235–183 BC)
Details
- Instance of
- human
- Born
- 235 BCE
- Died
- 183 BCE
- Conflict
- Second Punic War, Roman–Seleucid War
- Place of birth
- Ancient Rome
- Place of death
- Liternum
- Sex or gender
- male
- Father
- Publius Cornelius Scipio
- Mother
- Pomponia
- Spouse
- Aemilia Tertia
- Child
- Cornelia, Lucius Cornelius Scipio, Publius Cornelius Scipio, Cornelia Africana Major, Gnaeus Cornelius Scipio
- Field of work
- politics, military affairs
- Occupation
- politician, military personnel, genealogist, military leader
- Position held
- military tribune, aedile, salian priest, proconsul, Roman consul, proconsul, Roman censor, Roman consul, legatus
- Citizenship
- Ancient Rome
- agnomen
- Africanus
- cognomen
- Scipio
- depicted by
- Statue of Scipio Africanus, Publius Cornelius Scipio Africanus, Portrait of the Ancient Roman General Scipio
- described by source
- Brockhaus and Efron Encyclopedic Dictionary, Pauly–Wissowa, Dictionary of African Biography, Russian translation of Lübker's Antiquity Lexicon, The Nuttall Encyclopædia, Small Brockhaus and Efron Encyclopedic Dictionary, Greater than Napoleon: Scipio Africanus, Belarusian encyclopedia (vol. 15)
- different from
- Scipio Africanus: The Defeat of Hannibal
- family
- Cornelii Scipiones
- gens
- Cornelia gens
- languages spoken, written or signed
- Latin, Ancient Greek
- name in native language
- P. Cornelius P.f.L.n. Scipio Africanus
- nomen gentilicium
- Cornelius
- praenomen
- Publius
- time period
- Middle Roman Republic
- topic's main category
- Category:Publius Cornelius Scipio Africanus Major
- writing language
- Latin, Ancient Greek
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