The Immortals Of Carthage

The Immortals Of Carthage PDF

Author: Teejay LeCapois

Publisher: Lulu.com

Published: 2015-04-15

Total Pages: 330

ISBN-13: 1312993995

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My name is Abimilki Maharbal, and I was born in the Republic of Carthage (Tunisia) in 800 B.C. to a Carthaginian mother and an Ethiopian father. My twin Zaracas and I were exposed to a Meteor shower which changed us, endowing us with extraordinary powers. We are virtually Immortal. To punish me for bedding his wife Sophoniba in 770 B.C. Zaracas locked me away. I was trapped in a watery grave for over 2000 years. Now I'm back, living in Boston, Massachusetts, as a Suffolk University Law student. Ladies and gentlemen, I truly love the modern era with its liberated women and technologies. I'm also looking to give my brother a little payback. Apparently, Zaracas went nuts and became a serial killer, targeting women who look like his long-dead wife. I must end Zaracas millennia-old reign of terror. Wish me luck.

The Death of Carthage

The Death of Carthage PDF

Author: Robin E. Levin

Publisher: Trafford Publishing

Published: 2011-12

Total Pages: 337

ISBN-13: 1426996071

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The Death of Carthage tells the story of the Second and third Punic wars that took place between ancient Rome and Carthage in three parts. The first book, Carthage Must Be Destroyed, covering the second Punic war, is told in the first person by Lucius Tullius Varro, a young Roman of equestrian status who is recruited into the Roman cavalry at the beginning of the war in 218 BC. Lucius serves in Spain under the Consul Publius Cornelius Scipio and his brother, the Proconsul Cneius Cornelius Scipio. Captivus, the second book, is narrated by Lucius's first cousin Enneus, who is recruited to the Roman cavalry under Gaius Flaminius and taken prisoner by Hannibal's general Maharbal after the disastrous Roman defeat at Lake Trasimene in 217 BC. Enneus is transported to Greece and sold as a slave, where he is put to work as a shepherd on a large estate and establishes his life there. The third and final book, The Death of Carthage, is narrated by Enneus's son, Ectorius. As a rare bilingual, Ectorius becomes a translator and serves in the Roman army during the war and witnesses the total destruction of Carthage in the year 146 BC. This historical saga, full of minute details on day-to-day life in ancient times, depicts two great civilizations on the cusp of influencing the world for centuries to come.

Carthage Must be Destroyed

Carthage Must be Destroyed PDF

Author: Richard Miles

Publisher:

Published: 2010

Total Pages: 568

ISBN-13:

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The devastating struggle to the death between the Carthaginians and 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 buckled and their capital city, history and culture were almost utterly erased. The last great threat to Roman supremacy across the entire Mediterranean had gone, fulfilling Cato the Elder's insistent demand 'Carthage must be destroyed'. 'Carthage Must Be Destroyed' brilliantly 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, with interests stretching from the Middle East to southern Spain. Roman ferocity tried to remove Carthage from history, but it is possible nonetheless to create an extraordinary narrative of a civilization which left an indelible, if often hidden legacy for those that followed. At the heart of all attempts to understand Carthage must lie the extraordinary figure of Hannibal - the scourge of Rome and one of the greatest, most charismatic and innovative of all military leaders, but a man also who ultimately led his people to catastrophe. Drawing on a wealth of new archaeological research, Richard Miles makes Carthage vivid as it has never been before.

The Carthaginians

The Carthaginians PDF

Author: Dexter Hoyos

Publisher: Routledge

Published: 2010-06-10

Total Pages: 324

ISBN-13: 1136968628

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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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