E. Badian
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LOCATION: Cambridge, MA, United States
John Moors Cabot Professor of History, Harvard University. Author of Roman Imperialism in the Late Republic and others.
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Syphax was the king of the Masaesyli, a Numidian tribe (in North Africa). Formerly a Carthaginian dependent, he rebelled in 214 bc in consultation with Publius Cornelius Scipio and his brother Gnaeus, who were fighting Carthaginian forces in Spain at the time. In 206, he expelled his neighbour and…
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