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Demonizing Carthage: Propaganda Wars in the Ancient Mediterranean
Carthage, the Queen of the Mediterranean, was founded by Phoenicians in 814 BCE, on the coast of what is now Tunisia. It grew to become a resplendent commercial metropolis, with multi-storied buildings, refulgent temples, libraries, marketplaces, and...
The Kriegsschuldfrage In The Punic Wars
The three long wars waged between Carthage and Rome from 264 to 146 BCE, called by the latter “Punic Wars”, pitted the North African maritime trading city-state against the militaristic and expansionistic power of the emerging Roman Republic. The...
Of Rivers and Elephants
Pachyderms are an inseparable part of the image of the great Carthaginian general, Hannibal Barca, although they took part in a lot fewer engagements than most people familiar with his story assume. But let us examine two incidents involving elephant...
A Question of Hatred?
Hannibal’s hatred of Rome is so well known that it has become proverbial and allusions to it abound in literature. How many times have we read that a character was possessed of “a hatred like Hannibal’s” or that “he hated with the intensity...
A Problem Of Sources
Hannibal! I became fascinated with the great Carthaginian general, as many a schoolboy, upon reading of the crossing of the Alps with an army including elephants! Ah, those incredible elephants! So much a part of Hannibalic lore and image, and yet so...
