Carthage
@article{Scullard1955Carthage, title={Carthage}, author={Howard Hayes Scullard}, journal={Greece and Rome}, year={1955}, volume={2}, pages={98 - 107} }
Few cities, perhaps, have enjoyed two periods of prosperous existence, each lasting some seven hundred years but separated by the gulf of a century when the city lay in utter ruin and desolation. Yet such was the history of Carthage: Punic Carthage which had dominated the western Mediterranean for centuries was wiped off the map by Rome in 146 B.c., only to be revived a century later as a Roman creation and to become one of the most flourishing cities of the Empire, surviving until its…