Scipio

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Ross Leckie. Scipio

SCIPIO

CONTENTS

PROLOGUE

Forming

Proving

Doing

EPILOGUE

CHRONOLOGY

CARTHAGE

HANNIBAL

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ROSS LECKIE

Surely no one can be so worthless or apathetic as not to want to know by what means and under what system of government the Romans, in less than fifty-three years [220–167 BC], succeeded in bringing under their rule almost the entire inhabited world, an achievement without parallel in human history?

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‘Good morning, Father.’ I didn’t know what to do. This hadn’t happened before.

‘Well, don’t stand there gawking! Sit down!’ my father said.

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