Before the Punic Wars, as Rome and Carthage edged towards conflict in the third century BC, the balance of power in the ...

Carthage began as a Phoenician trading outpost and grew into a Mediterranean empire that challenged Rome itself. This chapter follows Phoenician expansion, navigation, and colonization, before tracing ...

A vision of ancient Carthage, attributed to the painter William Linton, c. 1830. The Cleveland Museum of Art Around 310 B.C.E., Carthage was under siege by Agathocles of Syracuse and his army.

This illuminating debut chronicle from historian MacDonald aims to tell the story of Carthage free from the “othering” propaganda spread by its rivals and eventual annihilators, the Romans. The author ...