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Authors: Richard Miles
in Sicily
trade routes and networks
Carthaginian
Etruscans
Levant to Spain
Sardinia
Tyrian
Tyrrhenian (north–south)
Trasimene, Lake, Battle of (217)
Trebia, River, Battle of (218)
Tribunal of One Hundred and Four
and appointment of generals
Hannibal’s reforms
Troy
and Greece
and Roman foundation myths
Tunes (Tunis)
mercenaries at
Scipio at
taken by Regulus
Turdentani tribe, southern Spain
Tyre
acquisition of hinterland
Assyrian pressure on
colonization of western Mediterranean
colony at Gades
peace with Babylon (573 BC)
relations with Egypt
relations with Israel
revolt against Assyria
role in Carthaginian identity
siege of (332)
and Spanish silver mines
temples
trading network
Tyros, nymph
Ugarit, northern Syrian state
Umbria, under Roman control
Uni, Etruscan goddess
United States of America
as new Rome
Utica
besieged by mercenaries
Scipio’s landing at
Utica, battle of (203)
Valerius Maximus, Roman writer
Varro, Gaius Terentius, Roman commander at Cannae
and Capua
Varro, Roman writer
Vegetius, Roman military writer
Veii, Etruscan city
showers of stones
Velleius, writer
Venus Erycina, Roman goddess
Venus, goddess, patron deity of Rome
Vergil (Vergilius Marro) (Virgil),
Aeneid
Aeneid
Via Flaminia
Villaricos, Andalusia
Volcae tribe, Rhône valley
votive monuments
Vulso, Lucius Manlius, consul
Vulturnus, River, valley of
walls
city
Lilybaeum
sea
warfare
brutality in Mercenaries’ Revolt
Carthaginian attrition strategy
Hamilcar’s raids
Hannibal’s tactics
murder of prisoners
phalanx
Roman pace of
see also
naval warfare
naval warfare
water supplies
Carthage
Tyre
weapons
and body armour
falaricia
(javelin)
(javelin)
falcata
(curved sword)
(curved sword)
javelins
leather caps
manufacture
shields
slings and shot
spears
swords
weights and measures, Phoenician
wine, laws on
wine production
Sicily
trade
women, rights of
writing
Greek loan words from Phoenician
Phoenician, western Mediterranean
Xanthippus, Spartan commander
Yada’milk, tomb in Carthage
Yahweh, Israelite god
Zama, battle of (202)
Zeus Meilichios, sacred enclosure of
Zonaras, historian, on Mylae
Zybac, tomb in Kerkouane
1.
Aeneas’ Farewell from Dido in Carthage
, 1675–6, oil painting by Claude Lorrain.
Aeneas’ Farewell from Dido in Carthage
, 1675–6, oil painting by Claude Lorrain.
2. Panoramic view of Carthage, reconstruction painting from the Musée National, Carthage.
3. and 4. Gold finger rings with settings adorned with a woman’s head and a man’s head, third century BC, from the necropolis of sainte-Monique, Carthage.
5. Amulets depicting faces, fourth or third century BC.
6. Relief depicting the unloading of wood after transportation by sea, eighth century BC, Assyrian, from the Palace of Sargon II, Khorsabad.
7. Votive Punic Stele depicting Priest holding a child, fourth century BC, dark limestone, from the tophet of Carthage.
8. Punic stelae from the tophet of Carthage.
9. Votive Stele depicting Tanit, goddess of Carthage, holding a caduceus with a dolphin and an inscription, second or first century BC, Phoenician, from Tophet El-Horfa, Algeria.
10. Sarcophagus of ‘Winged Priestess’, fourth or third century BC, marble, from the necropolis of sainte-Monique, Carthage.
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