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The Third Punic War and the Destruction of Carthage: Cato's Word and Scipio's Arms.
BURGEON Christophe.

The Third Punic War and the Destruction of Carthage: Cato's Word and Scipio's Arms.

Academia / L'Harmattan.
€21,50 €0,00
N° d'inventaire 29475
Format 15.6 x 24
Détails 189 p., paperback.
Publication Louvain-la-Neuve, 2015
Etat Occasion
ISBN 9782806102546
Carthage, Rome's historic enemy, was destroyed in the spring of 146 BC after a four-year war. It took four consuls to break down the solid walls that still defended the citizens of the Punic city. Writers of the late Republic and Empire identified the year 146 as the end of an era. Now without rival, it had given itself over to luxury.
If Cato, a veteran of the Second Punic War, had been the instigator of the destruction of Dido's city, Scipio Aemilianus, who perhaps made a decisive contribution to the motion of the old censor, was its principal architect.
Carthage, Rome's historic enemy, was destroyed in the spring of 146 BC after a four-year war. It took four consuls to break down the solid walls that still defended the citizens of the Punic city. Writers of the late Republic and Empire identified the year 146 as the end of an era. Now without rival, it had given itself over to luxury.
If Cato, a veteran of the Second Punic War, had been the instigator of the destruction of Dido's city, Scipio Aemilianus, who perhaps made a decisive contribution to the motion of the old censor, was its principal architect.