ESSAY 3

FABIUS, SCIPIO and Republican Foreign Entanglements. (Read speeches, Livy, 28.40) Discuss the speeches of Q. Fabius Maximus and P. Cornelius Scipio in the debate of 205 concerning the invasion of Africa from the perspective of the supposed" isolationist/expansionist" debate at Rome. Is it fair to say that Fabius represented the old way of doing things and Scipio the new way? How so?