July 207 BC — the Second Punic War
Chapter VI · The ring closes — Metaurus & Ilipa — the ring closes.
This month
- The Greek south evacuated — Metapontum and Heraclea — After the Metaurus Hannibal draws everything he still holds into Bruttium, moving the Metapontines and the Lucanians who had joined him along with his army. (Livy 27.51)
- Philopoemen kills Machanidas at Mantinea — The reformed Achaean phalanx breaks the Spartans; Philopoemen spears the tyrant at the ditch. Sparta passes to Nabis, its last king. (Polybius 11.11–18)
Where the commanders stand
- Philip V of Macedon: Encamped at Thermon · since Summer 207 BC
- Syphax: In Siga · king of the masaesyli
- Masinissa: Operating in the region of the Punic armies in Spain · 5th year
- Hasdrubal son of Gisco: Operating in the region of Gades · 12th month
- Mago Barca: Operating in the region of Gades · 4th month
- C. Claudius Nero: Encamped at Canusium · since Summer 207 BC
- Q. Fabius Maximus: In Rome · princeps senatus
- Hannibal Barca: Marching from the head of Hasdrubal toward the Bruttian redoubt
- Publius Cornelius Scipio: Operating in the region of Baecula · 2nd year
- Hasdrubal Barca: Falls at the Metaurus, June 207 BC
- M. Claudius Marcellus: fell here, June 208 BC
- Publius & Gnaeus Scipio: fell here, June 211 BC