Battle of Canusium was part of a larger offensive to narrow the base of the general who was the son of which commander?
Battle of Canusium The Battle of Canusium was a three-day engagement between the forces of Rome and Carthage. It took place in Apulia during the summer of 209 BC, the tenth year of the Second Punic War. A larger Roman offensive, of which it was a part, aimed to subjugate and to punish cities and tribes that had abandoned the alliance with Rome after the Battle of Cannae, and to narrow the base of the Carthaginian leader, Hannibal, in southern Italy.
Artapanus (general) Artapanus (Greek: Αρτάπανος ) was a Persian General under Xerxes I. According to Ctesias' "Persica", Artapanus led the first wave of Persians against the Spartan force at the Battle of Thermopylae in 480 BC. Although he led a force of 10,000 men, they were routed by the Spartan defenders.