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Carthage : a History by Brian Herbert Warmington is a history book available to read on EtoBox.
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It is many years since a book about ancient Carthage appeared in this country in spite of the fact that Carthage played a major part in the history of Rome, and of the Greek colonies in Sicily. I hope that this attempt to give an account of Carthaginian history and civilization and to describe its position in the ancient Mediterranean world will do something to fill the gap. The difficulty which faces anyone who tries to write such an account is that he must rely largely on the information provided by the Greek and Roman enemies of Carthage, since nothing survives of the Carthaginians' own literature. It is true that there were several Greek writers who described the history of the wars of Carthage with Rome from a standpoint favourable to the former, but their works are lost and what we know of them has to be deduced from later writers who used them as a source. Essentially the Carthaginians are portrayed for us by Greeks for whom they were a people who disputed possession of Sicily, and by Romans for whom they were the rivals in a struggle for mastery of the western Mediterranean, and it is not surprising that the picture is an extremely hostile one. The task is to separate the t
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Common subject areas: history, science, philosophy, social sciences.
- Author
- Brian Herbert Warmington
- Publisher
- New York: Barnes & Noble Books
- Published
- 1969
- Language
- EN
- ISBN
- 9781566192101
- Category
- history
- Subjects
- History, Humanities
- Rating
- 4.3 / 5 (5 ratings)
- Updated
- 2026-03-14