August 213 BC — the Second Punic War
Chapter III · After Cannae — After Cannae — the great defection of the south.
This month
- Achaeus executed at Sardis — Betrayed out of the citadel, the rebel is mutilated and crucified; the Seleucid civil war ends and Anatolia returns to Antiochus. (Polybius 8.15–21)
Where the commanders stand
- Philip V of Macedon: Operating in the region of the Illyrian hinterland · 3rd month
- Syphax: In Siga · king of the masaesyli
- Hasdrubal son of Gisco: Operating in the region of the Upper Baetis, from Castulo · 2nd year
- Mago Barca: Operating in the region of the Upper Baetis, from Castulo · 2nd year
- C. Claudius Nero: Operating in the region of Castra Claudiana above Suessula · 2nd year
- Q. Fabius Maximus: In Rome · since Summer 213 BC
- Hannibal Barca: Operating in the region of Repulse at Nola · 3rd year
- M. Claudius Marcellus: Besieging Syracuse · 4th month
- Publius & Gnaeus Scipio: Operating in the region of Dertosa — the unsung salvation · 3rd year