The Carthaginians
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The Carthaginians

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The Carthaginians

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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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Information

Publisher
Routledge
Year
2010
eBook ISBN
9781136968624
Edition
1
Topic
History
Subtopic
Ancient History
Index
History

INDEX


Abdera (Spain) 4, 50, 195
accountants (‘treasurers’, mhšbm, mehashbim) 31, 41, 87, 120, 144, 208
Acherbas:
see Zakarbaal
Acholla 39, 63, 217
Acragas (Agrigentum) 17, 49, 56, 60, 71, 75, 106–7, 112, 133–5, 157, 162–3, 165, 167, 169, 173–7, 180–1, 183, 187
Adherbal (general in 250–249) 34, 187–8
Adherbal (general in 307) 174
adirim, ’drm:
see senate of Carthage
Adriatic 168, 197, 199–200, 203
Adys (battle) 185
Aegates Islands (battle) 36, 189
Aelian (writer) 136
Aesculapius (Eshmun) 28, 76, 87, 98;
see also Asclepius, Eshmun
Agathocles (tyrant and king of Syracuse) 29, 64, 72, 76, 101, 139–42, 145–6, 149, 152–4, 156, 158, 162, 172–7, 181–2, 185–6, 195, 201, 203, 206
agora at Carthage:
see town square
Alalia (Corsica) 43, 46, 125
Alashiya 4, 9
Alexander the Great 2, 101, 112, 139, 141, 152, 162, 172, 174, 191, 196, 200, 211
Alps 163, 199–200
Ammianus Marcellinus (historian) 105
amphorae 12, 44, 50, 60, 62, 83
Anaxilas (tyrant of Rhegium) 164–5
annals of Tyre 5
Antiochus III 208
Apollo (Reshef?) 15, 77, 94, 98–9, 219
Appian 6, 28, 30, 70–1, 75–6, 75–6, 85–8, 90–2, 113, 135, 142–3, 151, 212–14, 217
Appius:
see Claudius, Appius
Apthther ...

Table of contents

  1. PEOPLES OF THE ANCIENT WORLD
  2. CONTENTS
  3. ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS
  4. MAPS
  5. ILLUSTRATIONS
  6. SOURCES OF IMAGES
  7. CHRONOLOGICAL TABLE
  8. SOURCES OF KNOWLEDGE
  9. I THE PHOENICIANS IN THE WEST
  10. II CARTHAGE: FOUNDATION AND GROWTH
  11. III STATE AND GOVERNMENT
  12. IV THE CARTHAGINIAN ‘SEA EMPIRE’
  13. V TRADERS AND LANDOWNERS: CARTHAGINIAN SOCIETY
  14. VI THE CITYSCAPE OF CARTHAGE
  15. VII RELIGION AND CULTURAL LIFE
  16. VIII CARTHAGE IN AFRICA
  17. IX CARTHAGE AT WAR: SICILY
  18. X THE FIRST WAR WITH ROME, AND AFTER
  19. XI THE NEW EMPIRE AND HANNIBAL
  20. XII REVIVAL AND DESTRUCTION
  21. XIII CARTHAGE IN HISTORY
  22. NOTES
  23. SELECT BIBLIOGRAPHY
  24. INDEX