دانلود کتاب Carthage: A Biography (Cities of the Ancient World)

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Cover
Half Title
Series Page
Title page
Copyright page
Contents
List of illustrations
Maps
Acknowledgements
1. Dido\'s city
Foundation
The early city
Society and state
2. Trade and the beginnings of empire
Trade, wealth, and growth
Commercial expansion and territorial hegemony
Two famous Atlantic enterprises
3. City life and religion
Religion at Carthage
Child sacrifice?
The cityscape
The enclosed harbours
4. Society and government
Names
Art and literature
Aristocrats and military families
Population and people
Government
Carthage\'s fleets
Carthage\'s armies
5. Politics, politicians, and Carthage in Libya
Sixth-century bc politics: Malchus
The Magonid family dynasty
Politics in the fourth century: the first Hanno \'the Great\'
Later fourth-century politics: Mago, Gisco, and after
Third-century stresses
The era of the Barcids
Reform and disaster
6. Carthage versus the Greeks
The fifth-century Sicilian wars
Carthage versus Dionysius
Disaster at the river Crimisus
The trauma of Agathocles
Carthage\'s last Greek war
7. Fighting Rome
Carthage and Rome before 264 bc“
Messana, Syracuse, and Acragas
Carthage\'s longest war
The Truceless War
The Barcids, Spain, and Rome
The Second Punic War: Hannibal\'s offensive
The war\'s middle years
The Metaurus and Zama
8. The death of Punic Carthage
Peace and Masinissa
The Third Punic War begins
Carthage besieged
Scipio Aemilianus takes command
The fall of Carthage
Aftermath
Why was Carthage destroyed?
9. Colonia Iulia Concordia Carthago
The road to recolonisation
The refoundation of Carthage
Proconsuls, government, and taxes
The major public structures
Culture and wealth
Imperial politics and impacts
10. Christianity and Carthage
The second and third centuries
Donatism vs orthodoxy
11. Carthage Vandalised
Count Bonifatius and the Vandals
Geiseric, king of Carthage
Vandal government and religion
Vandal Carthage: literature and propaganda
12. Byzantine Carthage
Reconquest and reconstruction
Warfare and violence
Carthage, North Africa, and the Three Chapters
A coup d’état from Carthage
Carthage in the seventh century
The first Arab invasions
The fall of Carthage
13. Conclusion
Appendix on sources
References
Index