About 30 of the Scipios were buried here. Some tombs are intact and have well-preserved inscriptions describing the political and military carrer of some of the Scipios. Scipio “Africanus” was not buried here, as he and his brother Asiaticus were put on trial, he left for his villa in Campania (Liternum) and died there where he was buried . However, two statues of Africanus and Asiaticus were eventually put at the entrance of this complex according to Livy. A third statue, usually identified as Ennius (but it’s only an hypothesis, not accepted by everyone), the great poet and propagandist of the Scipios, has been found.
Would love to visit.
One of the greatest brunchs of one of the greatest Gens in Roman history
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About 30 of the Scipios were buried here. Some tombs are intact and have well-preserved inscriptions describing the political and military carrer of some of the Scipios. Scipio “Africanus” was not buried here, as he and his brother Asiaticus were put on trial, he left for his villa in Campania (Liternum) and died there where he was buried . However, two statues of Africanus and Asiaticus were eventually put at the entrance of this complex according to Livy. A third statue, usually identified as Ennius (but it’s only an hypothesis, not accepted by everyone), the great poet and propagandist of the Scipios, has been found.
Would love to visit.
One of the greatest brunchs of one of the greatest Gens in Roman history