A story of the Second Punic Wars, beginning with Scipio's futile pleas to the Roman Senate to build an army to battle Hannibal, that climaxes with the battle of Zama.

or Scipio Africanus as he was to become better known, was born in 236 BC to a prominent Roman family and reached adulthood just in time for the Second Punic War against Carthage. Scipio's most ...