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The Carthaginians (Paperback, New)
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The Carthaginians (Paperback, New)
Series: Peoples of the Ancient World
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Total price: R1,213
Discovery Miles: 12 130
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The Carthaginians reveals the complex culture, society and
achievements of a famous, yet misunderstood, ancient people.
Beginning as Phoenician settlers in North Africa, the Carthaginians
then broadened their civilization with influences from neighbouring
North African peoples, Egypt, and the Greek world. Their own
cultural influence in turn spread across the Western Mediterranean
as they imposed dominance over Sardinia, western Sicily, and
finally southern Spain. As a stable republic Carthage earned
respectful praise from Greek observers, notably Aristotle, and from
many Romans - even Cato, otherwise notorious for insisting that
'Carthage must be destroyed'. Carthage matched the great city-state
of Syracuse in power and ambition, then clashed with Rome for
mastery of the Mediterranean West. For a time, led by her greatest
general Hannibal, she did become the leading power between the
Atlantic and the Adriatic. It was chiefly after her destruction in
146 BC that Carthage came to be depicted by Greeks and Romans as an
alien civilization, harsh, gloomy and bloodstained. Demonising the
victim eased the embarrassment of Rome's aggression; Virgil in his
Aeneid was one of the few to offer a more sensitive vision.
Exploring both written and archaeological evidence, The
Carthaginians reveals a complex, multicultural and innovative
people whose achievements left an indelible impact on their Roman
conquerors and on history.
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