Finding Carthage Among The Romans

Finding Carthage Among The Romans

Finding Carthage Among The Romans The destruction of Carthage by the armies of the Roman Republic in 146BC was a seminal event in the rise of Rome to power across the Mediterranean. In popular memory, Carthage has, ever since, been remembered as that ‘enemy’ of Rome. The wars between Carthage and Rome, conventionally called the ‘Punic Wars’ were fought for a century across the middle-3rd to middle-2nd centuries BC (c. 264-146). This was a format…