Scipio
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Classical
- ScipioScipio (cognomen)Scipio is a Roman cognomen representing the Cornelii Scipiones, a branch of the Cornelii family. Any individual male of the branch must be named Cornelius Scipio and a female Cornelia. The nomen, Cornelius, signifies that the person belongs to the Cornelia gens, a legally defined clan composed of...
, a representation of the Cornelii Scipiones, branch of the illustrious Cornelii family from Ancient RomeAncient RomeAncient Rome was a thriving civilization that grew on the Italian Peninsula as early as the 8th century BC. Located along the Mediterranean Sea and centered on the city of Rome, it expanded to one of the largest empires in the ancient world....
. - Scipio AfricanusScipio AfricanusPublius Cornelius Scipio Africanus , also known as Scipio Africanus and Scipio the Elder, was a general in the Second Punic War and statesman of the Roman Republic...
, Roman general who defeated Hannibal at ZamaBattle of ZamaThe Battle of Zama, fought around October 19, 202 BC, marked the final and decisive end of the Second Punic War. A Roman army led by Publius Cornelius Scipio Africanus defeated a Carthaginian force led by the legendary commander Hannibal...
, the final battle of the Second Punic WarSecond Punic WarThe Second Punic War, also referred to as The Hannibalic War and The War Against Hannibal, lasted from 218 to 201 BC and involved combatants in the western and eastern Mediterranean. This was the second major war between Carthage and the Roman Republic, with the participation of the Berbers on...
. - Scipio Aemilianus AfricanusScipio Aemilianus AfricanusPublius Cornelius Scipio Aemilianus Africanus Numantinus , also known as Scipio Aemilianus or Scipio Africanus the Younger, was a leading general and politician of the ancient Roman Republic...
, leading general and politician of the Roman RepublicRoman RepublicThe Roman Republic was the period of the ancient Roman civilization where the government operated as a republic. It began with the overthrow of the Roman monarchy, traditionally dated around 508 BC, and its replacement by a government headed by two consuls, elected annually by the citizens and...
who led the final siege and destruction of CarthageCarthageCarthage , implying it was a 'new Tyre') is a major urban centre that has existed for nearly 3,000 years on the Gulf of Tunis, developing from a Phoenician colony of the 1st millennium BC...
in 146 BC.
Given names
- Scipio Africanus JonesScipio Africanus JonesScipio Africanus Jones was an African-American educator, attorney, judge, philanthropist, and Republican politician from the state of Arkansas...
, African-American educator - Scipio Africanus (slave)Scipio Africanus (slave)Scipio Africanus was a slave born to unknown parents from West Africa. He was named for Publius Cornelius Scipio Africanus Major, the third century BCE Roman general, famous for defeating the Carthaginian military leader Hannibal.-Life:Very little is known of his life...
, African slave in England known for his epitaph - Scipio ColomboScipio ColomboScipio Colombo was an Italian operatic baritone, who sang a wide range of roles.Born in Vicenza, Italy, Colombo first studied philosophy at the University of Padua, before turning to music...
, Italian opera singer - Scipio MoorheadScipio MoorheadScipio Moorhead was an enslaved African American artist who lived in Boston. His only surviving work is a portrait of the African American poet, Phillis Wheatley. Moorhead is the main focus of Wheatley's "To S. M. a young African Painter, on seeing his Works", published in Poems on Various...
, African-American artist - Scipio SlataperScipio SlataperScipio Slataper was an Italian language writer from Trieste, most famous for his lyrical essay My Karst. He is considered, alongside Italo Svevo, as the initiator of the prolific tradition of Italian literature in Trieste....
, writer from TriesteTriesteTrieste is a city and seaport in northeastern Italy. It is situated towards the end of a narrow strip of land lying between the Adriatic Sea and Italy's border with Slovenia, which lies almost immediately south and east of the city... - Scipio SpinksScipio SpinksScipio Ronald Spinks was a right-handed pitcher in Major League Baseball for the Houston Astros and St. Louis Cardinals between 1969 and 1973. He was a promising prospect until injuries prematurely ended his career....
, baseball player - Scipion AbeilleScipion AbeilleScipion Abeille was a French surgeon and poet, and brother of Gaspard Abeille. His most famous work was Histoire des Os which was published in 1685...
, French surgeon - Scipione AmmiratoScipione AmmiratoScipione Ammirato was an Italian historian.Ammirato was born at Lecce, in the kingdom of Naples. His father, intending him for the profession of law, sent him to study at Naples, but his own decided preference for literature prevented him from fulfilling his father's wishes...
, Italian historian - Scipione Barbò SoncinoScipione Barbò SoncinoScipione Barbò Soncino, also known as Scipione Barbuo, was a 16th-century Italian jurist and writer, active in Padua. His best known work was a a biography of the Dukes of Milan, Sommario delle vite de' duchi di Milano, which was illustrated with engravings by Girolamo Porro.-References:...
, Italian jurist - Scipione BorgheseScipione BorgheseScipione Borghese was an Italian Cardinal, art collector and patron of the arts. A member of the Borghese family, he was the patron of the painter Caravaggio and the artist Bernini...
, Italian cardinal - Scipione Borghese (prince)Scipione Borghese (prince)Prince Luigi Marcantonio Francesco Rodolfo Scipione Borghese, commonly known as Scipione Borghese was an Italian industrialist, politician, explorer, mountain climber and racing driver....
, Italian ruler - Scipione BreislakScipione BreislakScipione Breislak , Italian geologist of German parentage, was born in Rome in 1748. He distinguished himself as professor of mathematical and mechanical philosophy in the college of Ragusa; but after residing there for several years he returned to his native city, where he became a professor in...
, Italian geologist - Scipione del FerroScipione del FerroScipione del Ferro was an Italian mathematician who first discovered a method to solve the depressed cubic equation.-Life:Scipione del Ferro was born in Bologna, in northern Italy, to Floriano and Filippa Ferro...
, Italian mathematician - Scipione de' RicciScipione de' RicciScipione de' Ricci was an Italian Catholic prelate, who was bishop of Pistoia from 1780 to 1791. He was sympathetic to Jansenist ideas in theology....
, Italian bishop - Scipione GentiliScipione GentiliScipione Gentili was an Italian law professor and a legal writer. One of his six brothers was Alberico Gentili who is famous as one of the founders of public international law....
, Italian law professor - Scipione (Gino Bonichi)Scipione (Gino Bonichi)Gino Bonichi , known as Scipione, was an Italian painter and writer.He was born in Macerata. In 1909 he moved to Rome, where he later enrolled at the Scuola Libera di Nudo of the Accademia di Belle Arti di Roma...
, Italian painter - Scipione PulzoneScipione PulzoneScipione Pulzone , also known as Il Gaetano, was an Italian late Renaissance Mannerist or, more properly, "counter-Maniera" painter active in Rome...
, Italian painter - Scipione RebibaScipione RebibaScipione Rebiba was an Italian Cardinal of the Roman Catholic Church.He is of particular significance as more than 90% of all living Catholic bishops can trace their episcopal lineage back to him.-Biography:...
, Italian cardinal - Scipione TecchiScipione TecchiScipione Tecchi J.C.D. S.T.D. was a Cardinal of the Roman Catholic Church who served as Prefect of the Congregation of Rites....
, Italian cardinal - Elmer Scipio DundyElmer Scipio DundyElmer Scipio Dundy was a Nebraskan judge best known as the namesake of Dundy County, Nebraska. He was born in Trumbull County, Ohio on March 5, 1830. He passed the bar and set up practice in both Clearfield, Pennsylvania and Falls City, Nebraska from 1853 to 1858, and from 1862 to 1863...
, Nebraska judge - Andrew ScipioneAndrew ScipioneAndrew Phillip Scipione APM is the Commissioner of the New South Wales Police Force in Australia, succeeding Ken Moroney on 31 August 2007.-Personal:...
, Australian police commissioner - Francesco Scipione, marchese di MaffeiFrancesco Scipione, marchese di MaffeiFrancesco Scipione, marchese di Maffei was an Italian writer and art critic, author of many articles and plays. An antiquarian with a humanist education whose publications on Etruscan antiquities stand as incunabula of Etruscology, he engaged in running skirmishes in print with his rival in the...
, Italian writer
Indiana
- Scipio, IndianaScipio, IndianaScipio is an unincorporated town in Geneva Township, Jennings County, Indiana....
(Jennings County) - Scipio Township, Allen County, IndianaScipio Township, Allen County, IndianaScipio Township is one of twenty townships in Allen County, Indiana. As of the 2000 census, its population was 414.-Geography:Scipio Township covers an area of and is considered the smallest township in the state.-References:* * -External links:* *...
- Scipio Township, LaPorte County, IndianaScipio Township, LaPorte County, IndianaScipio Township is one of twenty-one townships in LaPorte County, Indiana. As of the 2000 census, its population was 4,269.-External links:* *...
Ohio
- Scipio Township, Meigs County, OhioScipio Township, Meigs County, OhioScipio Township is one of the twelve townships of Meigs County, Ohio, United States. The 2000 census found 1,050 people in the township.-Geography:Located in the northwestern part of the county, it borders the following townships:...
- Scipio Township, Seneca County, Ohio
- Scipio, OhioScipio, OhioScipio is an unincorporated community in the northwest corner of Morgan Township, Butler County, Ohio, United States, on the state line with Indiana. A post office was established on February 15, 1823, under the name "Philanthropy". The town was laid out by Joseph Alyea in 1827. It is at the...
(Butler County)
Creative works
- Dream of ScipioDream of ScipioThe Dream of Scipio , written by Cicero, is the sixth book of De re publica, and describes a fictional dream vision of the Roman general Scipio Aemilianus, set two years before he commanded at the destruction of Carthage in 146 BCE.Upon his arrival in Africa, Scipio Aemilianus is visited by his...
, story by CiceroCiceroMarcus Tullius Cicero , was a Roman philosopher, statesman, lawyer, political theorist, and Roman constitutionalist. He came from a wealthy municipal family of the equestrian order, and is widely considered one of Rome's greatest orators and prose stylists.He introduced the Romans to the chief... - The Dream of Scipio (book), book by Iain Pears
- Il sogno di ScipioneIl sogno di ScipioneIl sogno di Scipione, K. 126, is a dramatic serenade in one act composed by Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart to a libretto by Pietro Metastasio, which is based on the book Somnium Scipionis by Cicero. Mozart had originally composed the work at the age of 15 for his patron, Prince-Archbishop Sigismund von...
, dramatic serenade by Mozart - Il sogno di ScipioneIl sogno di ScipioneIl sogno di Scipione, K. 126, is a dramatic serenade in one act composed by Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart to a libretto by Pietro Metastasio, which is based on the book Somnium Scipionis by Cicero. Mozart had originally composed the work at the age of 15 for his patron, Prince-Archbishop Sigismund von...
, Opera by Judith WeirJudith WeirJudith Weir CBE, is a British composer.-Biography:Her music has been appreciated by audiences and critics alike. She trained with John Tavener while still at school and subsequently with Robin Holloway at King's College, Cambridge, graduating in 1976... - ScipioneScipioneScipione is an opera in three acts, with music composed by George Frideric Handel for the Royal Academy of Music in 1726. The librettist was Paolo Antonio Rolli. Handel composed Scipione whilst in the middle of writing Alessandro...
, opera by HandelHANDELHANDEL was the code-name for the UK's National Attack Warning System in the Cold War. It consisted of a small console consisting of two microphones, lights and gauges. The reason behind this was to provide a back-up if anything failed.... - Scipione affricanoScipione affricanoScipione affricano is an opera in a prologue and three acts by Francesco Cavalli. It was designated as a dramma per musica. The Italian libretto was by Nicolò Minato.-Performance history:...
, Opera by Francesco CavalliFrancesco CavalliFrancesco Cavalli was an Italian composer of the early Baroque period. His real name was Pietro Francesco Caletti-Bruni, but he is better known by that of Cavalli, the name of his patron Federico Cavalli, a Venetian nobleman.-Life:Cavalli was born at Crema, Lombardy... - Hannibal and ScipioHannibal and ScipioHannibal and Scipio is a Caroline era stage play, a classical tragedy written by Thomas Nabbes. The play was first performed in 1635 by Queen Henrietta's Men, and was first published in 1637...
, play by Thomas NabbesThomas NabbesThomas Nabbes was an English dramatist.He was born in humble circumstances in Worcestershire, and educated at Exeter College, Oxford in 1621...
Ships
- HMS ScipioHMS ScipioFour ships of the Royal Navy have borne the name HMS Scipio after the Roman general Scipio Africanus:*HMS Scipio was an 8-gun fireship purchased in 1739 and sold in 1746.*HMS Scipio was a 64-gun third rate launched in 1782 and broken up in 1798....
, British warships - HMS ScipionHMS ScipionTwo ships of the Royal Navy have borne the name HMS Scipion, after the French term for the Roman general Scipio Africanus:*HMS Scipion a 74-gun third rate, previously the French Téméraire class ship of the line Scipion...
, British warships - French ship ScipionFrench ship ScipionScipion was a 74-gun French ship of the line, built at Lorient to a design by Jacques Noel Sane. She was launched as Orient in late 1798, and renamed Scipion in 1801....
, French warships
Other
- ScipionyxScipionyxScipionyx is a genus of theropod dinosaur from the Early Cretaceous of Italy, around 113 million years ago. There has been only one skeleton discovered, which is notable for the preservation of soft tissue and internal organs. It is the fossil of a juvenile only half a metre long...
, a dinosaur - ScipioThe Thief LordThe Thief Lord is a children's novel written by Cornelia Funke. It was published in Germany in 2000 and translated into English by Oliver Latsch in 2002 for The Chicken House, a division of Scholastic publishing company...
, character from The Thief Lord