The Punic Wars: How Rome Defeated Carthage and Built an Empire
The Punic Wars: How Rome Defeated Carthage and Built an Empire The fires burned for seventeen days. Standing on a hill above the ruins of Carthage in 146 BC, the Roman general Scipio Aemilianus watched a civilization turn to ash and — according to the historian Polybius, who was present — wept openly, quoting Homer’s lines about the fall of Troy, seized by...
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