Main entry:

Lancel, Serge.

Title & Author:

Carthage : a history / Serge Lancel ; translated by Antonia Nevill.

Publication:

Oxford, U.K. ; Cambridge, Mass., USA : Blackwell, 1995.

Description:

xvii, 474 pages : illustrations, maps ; 24 cm

Notes:
Includes bibliographical references (pages (451)-464) and index.
1. The Founding of Carthage. Phoenician expansion. Textual traditions and their critique. Archaeological data. From Cyprus to the Pillars of Hercules. Tartessus and the Phoenicians in Spain. Beyond the Pillars of Hercules: from Lixus to Utica. Utica. The founding of Carthage. 'Early' and 'late' traditions. The foundation myth. The realities on the ground. The archaic cemeteries. The tophet. The present state of archaeological dating -- 2. The Establishment of the City. From the Tyrian colony to the African metropolis. Earliest Carthage. The earliest settlement: recent research. Information from funerary archaeology. Typology of the tombs. Funeral rites. Grave goods. Masks and terracottas. Scarabs and amulets. Jewellery. Ivories. Carthage at the end of the seventh century -- 3. The Beginnings of Empire. Phoenicians and Greeks in the West at the end of the seventh century. Punic establishments in the western Mediterranean. Sardinia and the Etruscan world. The first treaty between Carthage and Rome.
Phoenician and Punic Sicily. The discovery of Africa. The 'altars of the Philaeni' and Libyphoenician Africa. The northern seaboard of Punic Africa. Beyond the Pillars of Hercules. Hanno's Periplus -- 4. The Means of Power: From Thalassocracy to State. From the Magonids to oligarchy: the political history of Carthage. Punic 'royalty'. The aristocratic republic. Carthage's 'constitution'. The 'democratic evolution'. The 'Empire of the Sea'. Commercial shipping. The war fleet. The Marsala wreck -- 5. The Development of the City Between the Fifth Century and 146 BC. Fifth- and fourth-century Carthage. Carthage in the Punic Wars (the middle of the third century to 146 BC). The lines of development. The hill of Byrsa. Town planning and architecture in Carthage in the last years of the Punic city. The 'Hannibal quarter' on the south slope of Byrsa. The arrangement of the dwelling units. Carthage's harbours. The circular or military harbour. The merchant harbour and outer harbour.
Carthage's harbours prior to the Hellenistic period. Hypotheses regarding Carthage's earliest harbours -- 6. Religion. Baal Hammon. Tanit. The 'sign of Tanit'. Melqart. The divinities of 'Hannibal's oath'. The Carthaginian priesthood. The temples. Attitudes towards death and the dead. Inhumation and cremation. Outlines of a Punic eschatology. The tophet of Carthage and the problem of child sacrifice. The discovery of Carthage's tophet. The excavations of Icard and Gielly. The excavations of Francis Kelsey and Donald Harden. The excavations of Pierre Cintas. The 'chapel' and the foundation deposit. Recent investigations. Analysis of the urns and the reality of sacrifices. The funerary hypothesis. The 'molk' sacrifice in actual fact -- 7. Expansion Into Africa. Conquest of an African territory. The 'pagi' of Carthage. Carthage's land defences. Carthage's rural areas and Carthaginian agriculture. Mago and Punic agronomy. Rural residences. Kerkouane, the agricultural town of Cap Bon. The Punic Sahel.
The case of Smirat -- 8. Between East and West: An Ambiguous Cultural Identity. Architecture. Sculpture. Carved stelae and bronzes. Terracottas. Phoinikeia grammata and libri Punici. Punic language and literature -- 9. Carthage or Rome? The 'First Punic War' and the loss of Sicily. The causes of the conflict and its first phases. Regulus' expedition in Africa. The naval battle of the Aegates and the end of the Sicilian war. The mercenaries' war. The Barcids in Spain. The Hannibalic War or the 'Second Punic War'. From Cartagena to the Po Valley. From victory to victory. Cannae (summer 216). Reverses in Sicily and Spain. The end of the affair -- 10. The Final Ordeal. Under the eye of the Numidian princes. The Confrontation between Hannibal and Scipio Africanus. The consequences of Zama: the suffetate and Hannibal's exile. Carthage's revived prosperity. Late Punic pottery. 'Delenda est Carthago!'. The 'final solution'. The siege and Carthage's defences. Scipio Aemilianus.
The final assault and destruction of Carthage (spring 146) -- 11. The Double Survival. Institutional and religious survival. From Baal Hammon to African Saturn. Survivals of the Punic language. Carthage's archaeological renaissance. Flaubert in Carthage. The beginnings of scientific investigation.
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Translated from the French.

ISBN:

1557864683
9781557864680

Subject:

Punic antiquities.
Phoenicians.
Antiquités puniques.
Carthage (Extinct city) History.
Carthage (Ville ancienne) Histoire.
Tunisia Carthage (Extinct city)
Antiquities
Carthage

Form/genre:

History.

Holdings:

Location: Library main 253562
Call No.: BIB 183359
Status: Available