Hannibalic War 218-201 BC

Period 1 – Hannibalic Onslaught

218 Hannibal’s invasion of Italy -215 BC; P. Cornelius Scipio; Sempronius Longinus

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