Carthage in Virgil’s ‘Aeneid’: Staging the Enemy under Augustus. Cambridge classical studies

Elena Giusti  / Cambridge University Press, 2018

Reviewed by Claire Stocks, 

...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...

Mastering the West: Rome and Carthage at War. Ancient warfare and civilization

Dexter Hoyos  / Oxford University Press, 2015

Reviewed by Fred K. Drogula, 

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...

Bringing 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

Reviewed by Matthew M. McCarty, 

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...

1995.12.23, Rives, Religion and Authority in Roman Carthage

J. B. Rives  / Clarendon Press, 1995

Reviewed by David Riggs, 

...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...

Cyprian and Roman Carthage

Allen Brent  / Cambridge University Press, 2010

Reviewed by Graeme Clarke, 

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...

Carthage, 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

Reviewed by Antonella Mezzolani Andreose, 

...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....

The 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

Reviewed by Scott G. Bruce, 

...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...

Rome and Carthage at Peace. Historia Einzelschriften 113

R. E. A. Palmer

Reviewed by David Potter, 

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...

Cartagine romana e tardoantica. Studia erudita 10

Giovanni Di Stefano  / Fabrizio Serra Editore, 2009

Reviewed by John Jacobs, 

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...

Between Rome and Carthage: Southern Italy during the Second Punic War

Michael P. Fronda  / Cambridge University Press, 2010

Reviewed by Mark Thatcher, 

Preview Michael Fronda’s excellent book is the first modern monograph in English on Rome’s southern Italian allies in the Second Punic War. Fronda’s fresh and modern approach to the war’s...

Hannibal’s Dynasty: Power and Politics in the Western Mediterranean, 247-183 B.C. Paperback edition

B. D. (B. Dexter) Hoyos  / Routledge, 2005, 2003

Reviewed by Paul Burton, 

...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...

The 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

Reviewed by Carolina López-Ruiz, 

...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,...

A Companion to the Punic Wars. Blackwell companions to the ancient world. Ancient history

Dexter Hoyos  / Wiley-Blackwell, 2011

Reviewed by Dan-el Padilla Peralta, 

...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...

Phoenicians

Glenn Markoe  / British Museum Press, 2000

Reviewed by Jean Turfa, 

...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...

Etruria 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

Reviewed by Jean Turfa, 

...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,...

Celtes, Galates et Gaulois, mercenaires de l’Antiquité: représentation, recrutement, organisation. Antiquité-Synthèses

Luc Baray  / Éditions Picard, 2017

Reviewed by Uiran Gebara da Silva, 

...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...

Potestas populi: participation populaire et action collective dans les villes de l’Afrique romaine tardive (vers 300-430 apr. J.-C.). Bibliothèque de l’Antiquité tardive, 24

Julio Cesar Magalhães de Oliveira  / Brepols Publishers, 2012

Reviewed by Anna Dolganov, 

...an instrumental part of M’s overarching effort to recuperate an independent historical agency for the plebs urbana. In chapters 2 and 3 (43-123), Magalhães examines five important urban sites (Carthage,...

Apuleius: Rhetorical Works

Apuleius., S. J. Harrison, John (John L.) Hilton, Vincent Hunink  / Oxford University Press, 2001

Reviewed by Benjamin Lee, 

...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!”)....

Didone regina di Cartagine di Christopher Marlowe: metamorfosi virgiliane nel Cinquecento. Lingue e letterature Carocci, 202

Antonio Ziosi  / Carocci editore, 2015

Reviewed by Frances Muecke, 

...Cartagine Dido, Queene of Carthage/Il Virgilio di Marlowe, o la epische Technik/Nell’officina di Marlowe: analisi di alcune scene di Dido Testo The Tragedie of Dido, Queene of Carthage Commento Atto...

Virgil’s Double Cross: Design and Meaning in the ‘Aeneid’

David Quint  / Princeton University Press, 2018

Reviewed by Vassiliki Panoussi, 

...a good case that Aeneas serves as a double of Neoptolemus/Pyrrhus, followed by a doubling of Rome’s enemies, Carthage and Greece. Vergil masterfully uses the figure of Pyrrhus and his...