On this date: Two millennia later, the 3rd Punic War ends
In 1985, a war came to an official end – 2,131 years after its final battle. For centuries during the pre-Christian era, two ...
Wall Street Journal28 天
‘Hannibal and Scipio’ Review: Carthage Versus Rome
(“Punic” denotes the Phoenicians who settled Carthage.) To all appearances the ... Zama ended Hannibal’s hopes of crushing Rome and ending a longstanding rivalry for dominance over the ...
Africa's incredible city that was 'one of the great capitals of the ancient world'
This ancient city has a history that stretches back nearly three millennia and it was once the heart of a powerful ...
来自MSN28 天
‘Hannibal and Scipio’ Review: Carthage Versus Rome
He augments his two narrative threads with excurses such as “Politics and Factions at Carthage and Rome,” where biography gives way to broader cultural inquiry. A dozen appendices, tacked on ...
PBS8 年
The Rest of the World at the time of Classical Greece
Rome's great rival was Carthage, a Phoenician colony in northern Africa, which controlled most of the trade of the western Mediterranean. It would be another three centuries before Rome absorbed ...