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Historical person
186 BCE–130 BCE
Scipio Aemilianus was a Roman general and statesman best known for destroying Carthage in 146 BC and later taking Numantia in Spain. Adopted into the Scipionic family, he became a central figure in the politics and military expansion of the middle Republic.
In Vincent B. Davis II’s Son of Mars, the historical setting is the Numantine War, when Scipio Aemilianus restored Roman discipline and brought the Celtiberian city of Numantia to surrender. Vincent B. Davis II’s Blood in the Forum places Scipio Aemilianus within a narrative shaped by political ambition and government, social change and the pressures of ordinary life, and military command and battlefield decision-making.
In non-fiction, Scipio Aemilianus is discussed in Adrian Goldsworthy’s The Fall of Carthage. Adrian Goldsworthy’s The Fall of Carthage approaches the subject through military command and battlefield decision-making and political ambition and government.
Series
The Marius Scrolls are short Roman novels centred on Gaius Marius before his dominance of late Republican politics. They work as companion pieces to the Sertorius Scrolls, showing the early military and political experiences that shaped Marius and the Republic before the Social War and Sullan crisis.
All books in this series
Non Fiction
Biographies, histories and other non-fiction are listed separately from the historical novels above.
