Scipio aemilianus biography

Roman politician and general (185–129 BC)

"Scipio the Younger" redirects here.

Scipio aemilianus biography

For other uses, see Scipio the Younger (disambiguation).

Not to be confused with Scipio Africanus.

For other individuals named Publius Cornelius Scipio, see Publius Cornelius Scipio (disambiguation).

Publius Cornelius Scipio Africanus Aemilianus (185 BC – 129 BC), known as Scipio Aemilianus or Scipio Africanus the Younger, was a Roman general and statesman noted for his military exploits in the Third Punic War against Carthage and during the Numantine War in Spain.

He oversaw the final defeat and destruction of the city of Carthage. He was a prominent patron of writers and philosophers, the most famous of whom was the Greek historian Polybius. In politics, he opposed the populist reform program of his murdered brother-in-law, Tiberius Gracchus.

Family

Scipio Aemilianus was the second son of Lucius Aemilius Paullus Macedonicus, the commander of the Romans' victorious c