The Battle of Zama: How important was it really? | History Forum
2023年1月12日 · Traditionally viewed as the decisive turning point in Rome's rise to Mediterranean supremacy, one could very easily argue that the Battle of Zama was strategically insignificant, if not downright irrelevant, given that by 202 BC Carthage had already lost its Spanish Empire, utterly failed in its attempt to recover Sicily and Sardinia, and been ...
Battle of Zama | History Forum - historum.com
2013年7月30日 · Hi everyone. I'd like to apologize if this was already posted and created. SO the battle of Zama consisted of Roman - About 40,0000 troops - About Cavalry 6,000 Carthage - About 60,000 - 80 small elephants - 4000 Cavalry Now my question is about Hannibal. Why did a guy, who relied heavily...
Polybius, the three spies and the forgotten battle of Zama
2020年11月17日 · Yes, Appian talks about a battle with elephants and everything because the earlier histories also included this battle (Appian has a detailed account of the Roman Command structure, Polybius only mentions Scipio and Laelius). The great battle of Zama is a fabrication which was added to the real battle of Zama, which was a cavalry battle.
How many legions and equivalents at Zama? | History Forum
2018年11月23日 · When Scipio was consul in 205 political opponents (Fabius and Valerius Flaccus et al) had prevented him from holding a levy, and he took only 7000 volunteers with him to Sicily. Polybius (fragment XV.5) and Appian (Pun 32) say Massinissa joined with 6,000 Numidian infantry and 4,000 cavalry before the battle of Zama.
Polybius, the three spies and the forgotten battle of Zama
2020年11月17日 · The battle of Zama (Appian`s and Dio`s cavalry battle) Octavius` victory over Vermina (Simitthu/Chemtou) largely involving the cavalry. In my reply I quoted the public announcement in the Spring of 201 BC in Rome of the end of the war, at which there seemed no mention of a particularly great battle, nor the name of Zama.
Polybius, the three spies and the forgotten battle of Zama
2020年11月17日 · I think I have summarised the most recent evidence presented for this in Ross` BAR of 2005 (pages 52-54 "Looking For Zama") There was an idea that Zama was relocated from Seba Biar, but in 1948 Derouche noted that Numidian coins were found at Jama which indicated that the city existed before the suggested relocation. Picard in 1967 noted that ...
Polybius, the three spies and the forgotten battle of Zama
2020年11月17日 · A battle report was surely made by Laelius in Rome sometime in the weeks after the battle of Zama. I`m of the opinion that this may have been in late September or early October of 202 BC. I think everyone else had missed the entry of it in one of the Rome`s public records and the figures quoted may have been massaged by Valerius Antias.
Hannibal’s elephants and the battle of Zama | History Forum
2021年4月8日 · In the late summer to early autumn of 202 BC the Second Punic War was brought to a conclusion at the battle of Zama. It was here that Publius Cornelius Scipio defeated Hannibal Barca and according to Polybius` account of the battle, with twenty thousand enemy killed and as many taken prisoner, Scipio`s victory was a crushingly decisive one; it ...
What if Hannibal won the battle of Zama | History Forum
Carthage had at this point engaged with surrender talks with Scipio; had they gained a stronger bargining position by winning at Zama they may have been able to hammer out a surrender with much lighter terms than before: a less expensive war indemnity, being able to keep some more ships and elephants, some autonomy in going to war, etc.
Battle of Zama - elephants on the wings? | History Forum
2011年10月28日 · Should Hannibal have deployed his elephants on the wings and his own cavalry behind them to rout the numerically-superior Roman cavalry? It seems to me that if Hannibal had done this, his veterans would have held the centre as his cavalry would have been able to come in on the flanks and rear...