• @PugJesusOPM
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    73 days ago

    Explanation: The first bust is of Hannibal Barca, the famous Carthaginian general. The second is a Medieval portrait of Scipio Africanus, a contemporary Roman general whose father was killed by Carthaginian forces dispatched by Hannibal (and commanded by his brother) in Spain.

    Problem? Hannibal had in the course of his stunning military victories, by some estimates, killed one in five Roman males alive at the time, so there were quite a few dead Roman fathers to his name.