Publius Cornelius Scipio, Consul 218 BCE

The father of the legendary Scipio Africanus, the elder Scipio is a well-known figure from the Second Punic War even if his accomplishments were rather limited. Serving under his older and more talented brother, Scipio Calvus, Publius Scipio did a great deal to help establish a Roman foothold north of the Ebro. While he was defeated by Hannibal at the Ticinus, he was the second-in-command at Dertosa, one of the underrated but crucial battles of the conflict. In this video, I explain why the elder Scipio has typically been overrated, even though he did make one extraordinarily consequential decision during the war's first year which had far-reaching ramifications.

[YiannissB.]

Imma be honest, never before I was so hooked to a channel’s upload schedule as with Thersites. I’ve benched so many of his series by now. The content is simply amazing!




unless it’s about US presidents where I just don’t give a fuck :)

[bucsa]

“Because it’s Scipio ‘fucken’ Africanus”- best quote of the whole video. Love it

[AlexanderWest]

I put all your rome ND Carthage videos in a Playlist and named it
CARTHAGE Ò Carthago

[causantinthescot]

Imo Scipio was the real life version of Marinette in Miraculous Ladybug. Young, able to fix things together, have a close partner, Italian, always the people's people, bold and good strategist. It is hard to see a weak spot on both Scipio and Marinette.

It is possible that if I do a tier list about the generals of Punic Wars, I would use Marinette's waving picture to represent Scipio, while Adrien as Laelius. It maybe a weird choice, but I want to express how similar about these two figures is.

[AlexandreHirsch]

Great job with all those roman consuls and tribunes! Could you please add a video about Marcus Claudius Marcellus to the Romans of Renown playlist?

[Naingwinzaw]

I think you should do a video on Decimus Junius Brutus Albinus for your "Romans of Renown" series.


It seems to me that a lot of the things about him(like Caesar loving him like a son) got attributed to Marcus Brutus and he got forgotten which probably is due to him dying pretty early on.


By all accounts he also seemed to have been a capable military commander.


I am not a historian so I can't be sure but I cannot find anything about his motives for the assassination as he seemed to have benefited a lot from Caesar and would have kept on benefiting under Caesar.

[egoborder]

I wish we knew more about Hannibal's crossing. I'm not one to toss history at the feet of Hollywood films, but goddamn if that wouldn't be awesome to see realized

[Theodosius_fan]

I think hannibals greatest achievement was holding out as long as he did without substantiaial support from home

[KathrynsWorldWildfireTracking]

7:00 - Negative. Hannibal lost zero elephants in the Alps. (And, crossing the Alps is routine...that Hannibal did it in October, was shocking.) He took extremely heavy losses in cavalry and mercenary troops. Mostly, from ambush by hill tribes. His poor elephants died soon after the crossing... because Hannibal entered the malaria swamps of Italy...trying to vanish from Roman forces, with aims to pop out in an unexpected location. What Hannibal should have learned from his father during the first punic war.. is that disease kills more soldiers than battle. His entire army got sick, man and beast...and his eye was so infected he lost it. He may have lost nearly half his (original) forces in the swamps. His father had a surrender to the Romans because of a plague that struck his own troops. Oh how different historymight have been...if disease didn't intervene to strike down the Carthaginians both times...

[killerbeef]

@ThersitestheHistorian please do a life of Michael "Air" Jordan or a top ten/tier ranking of basketball player

[killerbeef]

Hannibal's set up beats Cannae because Hannibal's army was way less familiar with the terrain, the Romans, & all of this with a newly added Gallic wildcard element & a battered by the alps army.

[HxHDRA]

Tfw you lose your whole civilization by not wanting to give up silver mines
"Alas, desire for profit is surely the beginning of ruin."- Sima Qian

[foolishmortal]

I Would never name my kid ANY of the following 3 names in Publius, Cornelius, Scipio... but strangely, If i ever have 3 pets, there names are 100% going to be...
1.Publius
2. Corneliues
& 3. Scipio
And If i somehow come across a 4th pet somehow... He'll be Africanas