Das Jahr 129 v. Chr.: ein Senator im politischen Abseits?

Alternative Deutungen der letzten Lebensjahre des Scipio Aemilianus

Abstract

The last years in the life of Scipio Aemilianus after his victorious return from Numantia in 132 BCE are considered in a negative way by modern scholarship: Scipio’s political activities before his unexpected death in 129 BCE are depicted as a series of set-backs and failures. This article opposes the narrative version of Scipio’s political decline and demonstrates that the younger Africanus just before his death was neither isolated politically nor within his family nor was he failed in Roman domestic politics – quite on the contrary.