Carthage
Location
historical city in Tunisia
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Videos Mentioning Carthage
Great Books #7: The Anti-Homer
Predictive History
A city where Aeneas lands after a shipwreck and meets Queen Dido.
Great Books #8: The Poetry of Empire
Predictive History
Ancient city in North Africa founded by Dido, which famously warred with Rome and was ultimately destroyed.
Dante #3
Predictive History
A city where Aeneas is shipwrecked and falls in love with Queen Dido, before being ordered by the gods to continue to Italy.
Dante #6
Predictive History
The city founded by Queen Dido after escaping Phoenicia. Aeneas is shipwrecked there. Historically, Rome destroyed Carthage in three Punic Wars, and Virgil's Aeneid rationalizes this destruction as Dido's madness.