The better Africanus

[Mulceber]

Please do not be fooled by these impostors, for I am the greatest Africanus!

Seriously, I prefer the major simply because the future of the empire was more in doubt under the original. For all his great accomplishments, Rome remains a great power with or without minor, perhaps not so without major.

Simply and elegantly stated.

Wasn't that more because Polybius worked for Aemilianus (thus was complimentary of his ancestor Africanus), and his works happen to have survived (where others that might have been critical have not)?

I've always gotten the impression though that Maior was held in higher esteem by people like Cicero as well, and he definitely would have had access to other sources. I could be reading too much into it though. -M

[Andronikos]

Aemilianus who? I looked up something about him and he seems to be an interesting character, with the destruction of Carthage almost mythical, again thanks to EB fora I have learned something.

And yes, tough times and great enemy favour Publius Cornelius.

[anubis88]

I've always gotten the impression though that Maior was held in higher esteem by people like Cicero as well, and he definitely would have had access to other sources. I could be reading too much into it though. -M

I dunno about that... Cicero mentions Aemilianus in at least a few of his works... And he always speaks of him with great respect... Who's the better Africanus might be a to wide of a question, but it seems i got some of the answers i wanted... Actually exactly what i wanted...

Africanus Major is definetly much more known today then Aemilianus... That's a fact... But i do like my boy Aemilianus more... He was really something

[Brennus]

Pah! Roman leaders, up Diviciacus and Commios of the Belgae!

I need to read up more on Aemelianus before I can make a judgement.