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Carthage. North Africa from the Punic Wars to the fall of the Vandal Kingdom.

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Carthage. North Africa from the Punic Wars to the fall of the Vandal Kingdom.
49.99 €
This book covers the chronological period from the Punic Wars to the fall of the Vandal Kingdom under the Byzantine Empire. Following three long, bloody Punic Wars, Carthage was razed to the ground by the Romans, and the site where it stood was cursed and sown with salt—a sign that henceforth the land would be barren, for salt does not produce fruit. Who could have known then that, according to the vision of the great Julius Caesar, realized by Octavian Augustus, the city would be reborn and achieve such prosperity that it would be called the "African Rome"? The Punic culture that survived beyond the ruins of Carthage survived and revealed a fascinating fusion with Greco-Roman civilization. The Roman province of Africa played an active role in the political and cultural life of the ancient Roman state, producing its own imperial dynasty, the Severi, and later laying claim to global dominance through the two Gordians. The incomparable Apuleius forever enriched global human culture with his lyrical and philosophical tale of Cupid and Psyche, while St. Augustine of Hippo, who professed to be a Carthaginian, truly became the foundation on which Catholic theology has stood unshakably for 1,600 years. Those weary of the battles of nations and ideas will read here how the inhabitants of Roman Africa constructed a "wine pipeline" to the afterlife and, without fear or embarrassment, deceived Charon himself, the ferryman of souls to the underworld.
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