Africanus

Why it’s on the list: Santiago Posteguillo’s first novel and the opening of his Africanus trilogy on Scipio Africanus — the Second Punic War as a Spanish-language historical epic.

Where I heard about it

• Replies to @typesfast — shown in a screenshot of Rome books inside his history-books thread on X, June 2025.

About this edition

Originally published in Spanish as Africanus: El hijo del cónsul; no English translation is recorded.

Connections

• Rome — the setting.
• Classics — the field.