africanus

Scipio africanus absolutely learned from hannibal, and was able to layer aggressiveness, deception, and delay into his strategy.

Scipio Africanus removed Hannibal from Italy by first conquering Carthaginian Iberia, and then launching a campaign in Africa.

Scipio Africanus is an early example, but this sort of thing became much, much more common in the late Republic.

From Livy's History of Rome, when Scipio Africanus and Hannibal met at a party once: > Africanus asked who, in Hannibal's opinion, was the greatest general of all time.

The brothers Gracchi, grandsons of Scipio Africanus who defeated Hannibal, championed the poor and were eventually murdered by their political opponents.

The process also requires iron, but seems to be possible without cobalt (desulfovibrio africanus).

Scipio Africanus was the one who expanded the practice of client-patron relationships to a geopolitical scale to build an independent power base.

Scipio Africanus and Asiaticus conquered large regions but never turned their armies against Rome.

Since we’re off down a rabbit hole anyway, my favourite meetings of rival generals are those between Scipio Africanus and Hannibal.

Scipio Africanus did at the Battle of Zama, and he was promptly exiled from Rome afterwards by his political rivals (and was lucky to avoid execution really).

You can find these dates discussed by Sextus Julius Africanus (160-240 AD), Irenaeus (in Against Heresies, 180 AD), and Hippolytus (commentary on Daniel, 204 AD).

Speaking of which are the greatest generals, according to Livy Hannibal and Scipio Africanus met at a dinner 10 years after Scipio definitively beat Hannibal and that's what their conversation was about.

Some famous people got additional names, agnomina, such as "Africanus".

He also wrote respected volumes on the world wars and biographies of Rommel and Scipio Africanus, among others.

That's like saying Scipio Africanus, Charles Martel, or Alexander the Great were nothing because their soldiers did the fighting.

The opposing Roman general, Scipio Africanus, was already prepared to deal with the elephants, effectively using them against Hannibal.