Carthage must be destroyed
by Richard Miles · first published 2011
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The struggle to the death between the Carthaginians and the Romans was one of the defining dramas of the ancient world. In an epic series of land and sea battles, both sides came close to victory before the Carthaginians finally succumbed and their capital city, history, and culture were almost utterly erased. Drawing on a wealth of new archaeological research, Richard Miles vividly brings to life this lost empire--from its origins among the Phoenician settlements of Lebanon to its apotheosis as the greatest sea power in the Mediterranean. And at the heart of the history of Carthage lies the e
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Try "Carthage Must Be Destroyed: The Rise and Fall of an Ancient Civilization" by Richard Miles. It is not in dispute that Carthage had a long presence in Spain. If you are arguing that this had no impact on local culture, you'd need…
on “Phoenician culture spread mainly through cultural exchange” ↗…surprising to me. Historians have long studied Carthage, and there are books you can get on the Punic Wars that talk about the state of Carthage leading up to and during the wars (shout out to Richard Miles's "Carthage Must Be Destroyed: The Rise and Fall of an Ancient Civilization"). I would expect an LLM to piggyback off of that existing literature.
on “Study mode” ↗This month I read "Carthage Must Be Destroyed" (https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/10133950-carthage-must-b...), which dives deep into Hannibal's war against Rome (and the other punic wars). I highly recommend reading about what happened from the…
on “Single bone in Spain offers first direct evidence of Hannibal's war elephants” ↗I’m currently reading “Carthage must be destroyed”. If you want to look at the event from a not-solely Roman perspective I recommend this
on “The Forgotten Roman Ruins of the ‘Pompeii of the Middle East’” ↗…return, and concluded by complaining that the gold had been worked (into statues). I assume many of those statues got melted down. There is some discussion in https://www.amazon.com/dp/0670022667/ (Carthage Must Be Destroyed: The Rise and Fall of an Ancient Civilization) of how the Phoenician city-states of the bronze age (source of cedar wood to Egypt) gradually succumbed over the centuries to Assyrian empire-building. It's…
on “The Myth of the Barter Economy (2016)” ↗