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Article: Carthage: A History.(Brief Article)
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- The Historian
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- March 22, 1996
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By Serge Lancel. Translated by Antonia Nevill. (Oxford and Cambridge: Blackwell Publishers, 1995. Pp. xvii, 474. $34.95.)
While Rome was chafing under the rule of foreign kings, Carthage was expanding her influence into the North African hinterland (Spain, southern Gaul, Sardinia, and Sicily) and already had contacts with central and southern Italy. During the fifth century B.C., while Rome was struggling to cope with the conflicts arising from the establishment of its new republic, Carthage was confronting the Greeks over hegemony in Sicily. Until the mid-third century B.C. the most powerful city in the western Mediterranean was Carthage. After Rome eventually ...
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