Carthage in Virgil’s ‘Aeneid’: Staging the Enemy under Augustus. Cambridge classical studies
Elena Giusti / Cambridge University Press, 2018
...and Rome’s portrayal of Carthage within it. Despite working with material that is at times (extremely) fragmentary, Giusti constructs a convincing reading of Carthage as Rome’s ‘other’, in a manner...
BMCR 2015.09.40Mastering the West: Rome and Carthage at War. Ancient warfare and civilization
Dexter Hoyos / Oxford University Press, 2015
...dynamics between Carthage and King Masinissa of Numidia during this interwar period. He points out that Rome protected Carthage from its aggressive neighbor for over three decades, but around 162...
BMCR 2012.05.30Bringing Carthage Home: the Excavations of Nathan Davis, 1856-1859. University of British Columbia studies in the ancient world, 2
Joann Freed / Oxbow Books for the Department of Classical, Near Eastern and Religious Studies, University of British Columbia, 2011
...written account, however, explicitly places the site between two features surveyed onto Bordy’s 1897 French army map of Carthage: the village of Douar ech-Chott and Carthage’s circular harbor. The mosaic...
BMCR 1995.12.231995.12.23, Rives, Religion and Authority in Roman Carthage
J. B. Rives / Clarendon Press, 1995
...the imperial period. In chapter one (“Public Religion in Roman Carthage”), R. focuses on the nature of formal authority in religious matters in a Roman colony like Carthage. He concludes...
BMCR 2020.10.52Troy, Carthage and the Victorians: the drama of classical ruins in the nineteenth-century imagination
Rachel Bryant Davies / Cambridge University Press, 2018
...Carthage is an antithesis to Troy as a model of a destroyed civilization that did not produce cultural progeny (336). On the other hand, Carthage, which was destroyed by Romans,...
BMCR 2011.04.23Cyprian and Roman Carthage
Allen Brent / Cambridge University Press, 2010
This is a volume with a clear and consistently argued thesis. Cyprian, a recent Christian convert, as an educated upper-class Roman of mid-third century Carthage, shared, as part of his...
BMCR 2017.11.56The Afterlife in Early Christian Carthage: Near-Death Experience, Ancestor Cult, and the Archaeology of Paradise. Routledge studies in the early Christian world
Stephen E. Potthoff / Routledge, 2017
...ancestors in early Christian Rome (ch. 2), the material evidence for graveside commemoration in Carthage (ch. 3), thoughts and debates about the postmortem fate of the dead in the writings...
BMCR 2014.09.22Carthage, colline de l’Odéon: Maisons de la rotonde et du cryptoportique (recherches 1987-2000) (2 vols.). Collection de l’Ecole française de Rome 457
Catherine Balmelle, Ariane Bourgeois, Henri Broise, Jean-Pierre Darmon, Mongi Ennaïfer / Ecole française de Rome, 2012
...villa: late antique Housing in Carthage and its territory”, in L. Lavan, L. Özgenel, A. Sarantis (eds.), Housing in Late Antiquity. From Palaces to Shops (Leiden; Boston 2007) 336-366, 367-392....
BMCR 2022.04.13Carthage, Constantinople and Rome. Imperial and Papal interventions in the life of the Church in Byzantine Africa (533 – 698)
Stanisław Adamiak / Gregorian & Biblical Press, 2016
...a conference about Liberatus of Carthage, published as a special volume of the Zeitschrift für Antikes Christentum, vol. 14, issue 1 (2011). A recent discussion of the North Africa church...
BMCR 1998.08.02Rome and Carthage at Peace. Historia Einzelschriften 113
R. E. A. Palmer
...convincing picture, built upon widely scattered scraps of evidence, of a pattern of contact between Rome and Carthage. Carthage may now be seen as participating in the formation of the...
BMCR 2009.12.21Cartagine romana e tardoantica. Studia erudita 10
Giovanni Di Stefano / Fabrizio Serra Editore, 2009
...Di Stefano concisely recounts this changing of the guard and, in particular, explains how the transition from Roman Carthage to Vandal Carthage manifested itself in the ever changing urban environment...
BMCR 2005.07.65Hannibal’s Dynasty: Power and Politics in the Western Mediterranean, 247-183 B.C. Paperback edition
B. D. (B. Dexter) Hoyos / Routledge, 2005, 2003
...taxation and revenue system at Carthage. The chapter also includes the Roman senate’s anti-Barcid embassy to Carthage in 195, which drove Hannibal into self-imposed exile. Chapter 17 (pp. 202-211) recounts...
BMCR 2015.09.53The Punic Mediterranean: Identities and Identification from Phoenician Settlement to Roman Rule. British School at Rome studies
Josephine Crawley Quinn, Nicholas Vella / Cambridge University Press, 2014
...Carthage. The chronological limitations of the evidence, however, say little about what relations between Carthage and Numidia might have been before Carthage ceased to be the regional power. Ch. 8,...
BMCR 2001.05.09Phoenicians
Glenn Markoe / British Museum Press, 2000
...belong to Puina [cf. Poenulus?!] of/at Carthage…” Indeed, as Aristotle notes, there were treaties of alliance between Carthage and “Etruscans”—likely several cities, of which Rome was the weakest, and lost...
BMCR 2022.08.13The Oxford handbook of the Phoenician and Punic Mediterranean
Carolina López-Ruiz, Brian R. Doak / Oxford University Press, 2019
...and Carthage), and offers a brief case study on the indigenous and Phoenician settlements located around the Bay of Málaga. The informative value of Vadim Jigoulov’s chapter on Achaemenid Phoenicia...
BMCR 2013.01.43A Companion to the Punic Wars. Blackwell companions to the ancient world. Ancient history
Dexter Hoyos / Wiley-Blackwell, 2011
...IV (“The last half-century of Carthage”) covers the last phase of the Roman-Carthaginian drama. Claudia Kunze’s overview of Carthage and Numidia between the Second and Third Punic Wars stresses the...
BMCR 2004.03.32Etruria e Sardegna centro-settentrionale tra l’età del Bronzo Finale e l’arcaismo. Atti del XXI Convegno di Studi Etruschi ed Italici. Sassari-Alghero-Oristano-Torralba, 13-17 ottobre 1998
/ Istituti editoriali e poligrafici internazionali, 2002
...the Bay of Naples, as demonstrated in finds of Euboean pendant-semicircle cups. Greek-style painted cups were also found in the settlement of Carthage; some of these were made in Pithekoussai,...
BMCR 2021.06.09Africa – Ifrīqiya. Continuity and change in North Africa from the Byzantine to the early Islamic Age
Ralf Bockmann, Anna Leone, Philipp von Rummel / Harrassowitz Verlag, 2019
...Carthage and the Transition of Power to Tunis and Kairouan’. Faouzi Mahfoudh and Stefan Altekamp, ‘Carthage vue par les auteurs arabes’. Hafed Abdouli, ‘Le déplacement de la capitale provinciale de...
BMCR 2017.12.03Celtes, Galates et Gaulois, mercenaires de l’Antiquité: représentation, recrutement, organisation. Antiquité-Synthèses
Luc Baray / Éditions Picard, 2017
...and the question of whether it consisted in a simple mercenary betrayal to Carthage or a true civil war. In the fourth chapter, he further develops those themes, focusing now...
BMCR 2002.08.01Apuleius: Rhetorical Works
Apuleius., S. J. Harrison, John (John L.) Hilton, Vincent Hunink / Oxford University Press, 2001
...venerabilis, Karthago Africae Musa caelestis, Karthago Camena togatorum, “Carthage, the respected teacher of our province, Carthage, the heavenly Muse of Africa; Carthage, the inspiration of those who wear the toga!”)....