Hannibalic War 218-201 BC
Period 1 – Hannibalic
Onslaught
218
B. Lake Trasimene 217 C. Flaminius; Q. Fabius
Maximus dictator; Q. Minucius Rufus, magister equitum
battle of Cannae 216 L. Aemilius Paullus; C. Terentius Varro – son of a meat contractor
Novus homo; popularis/optimatus; ager publicus;
215 BC, Capua opened its
doors to Hannibal; Syracuse went to the Carthaginian side; war broke out in
Greece; King Philip V of Macedonia enters the war
Period 2 – 215-208 BC – long
road back
Roman conquest of Spain
(P. Scipio, privatus cum imperio
at age 24); Roman sack of Syracuse and reconquest of
Sicily; Roman reconquest Capua and Tarentum
Period 3 - 207-202 BC - Roman victory
M. Livius
Salinator and C. Claudius Nero, Battle of the Metaurus River.
Scipio’s organized
logistics in Sicily (Q. Pleminius and Cato the Elder);
invasion of Africa, defeat of Hannibal at the Battle of Zama in 202 BC