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020 $a9781597972055 (hardcover : alk. paper)
020 $a1597972053 (hardcover : alk. paper)
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050 00 $aDG248.S3$bG33 2008
082 00 $a937/.04092$aB$222
100 1 $aGabriel, Richard A.$0http://id.loc.gov/authorities/names/n79125892
245 10 $aScipio Africanus :$bRome's greatest general /$cRichard A. Gabriel.
250 $a1st ed.
260 $aWashington, D.C. :$bPotomac Books,$c[2008], ©2008.
300 $axxii, 303 pages :$billustrations, plans ;$c24 cm
336 $atext$btxt$2rdacontent
337 $aunmediated$bn$2rdamedia
504 $aIncludes bibliographical references (p. 281-289) and index.
505 00 $g1.$tThe Man -- $tBaptism by Fire -- $tCannae -- $tPublic Office -- $tSelection for Command -- $tMilitary Competency -- $g2.$tThe Strategic Setting -- $tCarthaginian Strategy -- $tThe Battle of the Trebia River, 218 BCE -- $tThe Battle of Lake Trasimene, 217 BCE -- $tThe Battle of Cannae, 216 BCE -- $tSpain -- $g3.$tThe Armies -- $tThe Carthaginian Army -- $tThe Roman Army -- $g4.$tScipio's Spanish Campaign -- $tThe Attack on New Carthage, 209 BCE -- $tThe Battle of Baecula, 208 BCE -- $tThe Battle of Ilipa, 206 BCE -- $g5.$tThe Strategist -- $tAfrica -- $tSpain -- $tThe Battle of the Ebro River, 206 BCE -- $tReturn to Rome -- $g6.$tThe African Campaign -- $tInvasion, 204 BCE -- $tThe Battle at the Tower of Agathocles, 204 BCE -- $tThe Burning of the Carthaginian Camps, 203 BCE -- $tThe Battle of the Great Plains, 203 BCE -- $tSyphax's Defeat -- $tTruce -- $g7.$tScipio and Hannibal -- $tThe Battle of Zama, 202 BCE -- $tPax Scipionis -- $g8.$tTriumph and Fall -- $tScipio's Political Life -- $tThe Last Campaign -- $tThe Trial of Scipio -- $g9.$tScipio's Place in Military History.
520 1 $a"The world often misunderstands its greatest men while neglecting others entirely. Scipio Africanus, surely the greatest general that Rome produced, suffered both these fates. He should be heralded and celebrated today; but he is not. So who is Scipio Africanus?" "He is the man who defeated Hannibal at the Battle of Zama and won the Second Punic War. He is the man who revolutionized Roman military tactics. He is the man who set Rome on her imperial course and extended Roman power into Spain, Africa, and Asia. And he is the man who, upon returning victorious to Rome - one of few generals who never tasted defeat - turned away from the temptation of personal ambition and retired from public life, preserving the institutions of Roman republicanism." "Yet today he is virtually unknown, overshadowed ironically by Hannibal, a man he defeated. Richard A. Gabriel brings Scipio Africanus front and center with this scholarly and heretofore unmatched military biography of the distinguished Roman soldier. Gabriel draws on ancient texts, including those from Livy, Polybius, Diodorus. Silius Italicus, and others, as primary sources and examines a plethora of additional material available to the modern scholar in French, German, English, and Italian. His book offers a comprehensive bibliography of extant sources regarding Scipio's life."--BOOK JACKET.
600 00 $aScipio,$cAfricanus,$dapproximately 236 B.C.-183 B.C.$0http://id.loc.gov/authorities/names/n50005015
651 0 $aRome$xHistory, Military$y265-30 B.C.$0http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh95002946
650 0 $aGenerals$zRome$vBiography.$0http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh2008105103
650 0 $aConsuls, Roman$vBiography.$0http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh2009121649
852 00 $boff,glx$hDG248.S3$iG33 2008