Update 1: N.S. Gill just blogged this chapter too: Scipio's Shadow
The next Kaeso Fabius Dorso in our current read, Roma, The Novel of Ancient Rome by Steven Saylor, is a friend of Scipio Africanus and we experience the Hannibalic War second hand, Kaeso being unable to soldier himself.
In 2006 I did some related blogging in connection with David Anthony Durham's Pride of Carthage which were then reading:
- scipio africanus, conqueror of carthage
- the hannibalic war in Plutarch's lives (including Fabius, Quintus Fabius Maximus Verrucosus, dictator and famous cunctator, who too is featured in the novel.)
- appian on the hannibalic war
- the aftermath of Cannae: why did Hannibal not go for Rome?
Meeting of Hannibal and Scipio at Zama
Young Folks' History of Rome, by Charlotte Mary Yonge
And Matters Arising has just been blogging The Punic Wars.
Wikipedia's Hannibal – as usual handle with care – is nicely illustrated (as is Scipio Africanus).
Hannibal makes the usual neat and appropriate Speech previous to killing himself
Comic History of Rome page 201
