This biography tells the story of Publius Cornelius Scipio Aemilianus, a Roman general and statesman who lived during the 2nd century BC. He is best known for his victory over the Carthaginian forces at the Battle of Zama in
Publius Cornelius Scipio Aemilianus Africanus, known as Scipio Aemilianus or Scipio Africanus the Younger, was a Roman general and statesman noted for his military exploits in the Third Punic War against Carthage and during the Numantine War in Spain. He oversaw the final defeat and destruction of the city of Carthage. He was a prominent patron of writers and philosophers, the most famous of whom was the Greek historian Polybius. In politics, he opposed the populist reform program of his murdered brother-in-law, Tiberius Gracchus.