Carthage

Although the exact reason is still unknown, the Romans began to expand, and they conquered their neighboring cities. In 264 BCE the Romans entered into a war against the empire of Carthage, which was more developed and wealthier than Rome. The Carthage Empire had a vast territory stretching from Tunisia to Spain, and they had a well-developed fleet. The Romans invaded Messina, an independent Greek state. Consequently, the Carthaginians sent warships to Syracuse,…

Vergil distinctly evokes Homer’s social construct, xenia, in his epic The Aeneid, but he transforms it into hospitium. Xenia is the Greco-Roman concept of hospitality. Although Homer’s Iliad is replete with a variety of societal agents, by the end of his story xenia has overcome money, battle, and glory and cemented its place as the most vital of all authorities in Homer’s Greece. In Vergil’s The Aeneid, xenia is still present, although it now goes by the name hospitium. More than simply…

Finally, I decided to look at Rome through the republic and empire. The rise of Rome was almost a millennia from 1000 to 27 B.C. Starting in 264 B.C. the Romans decide to go to war against Carthage. This was the first of three wars called the Punic Wars and by the end of the third Punic War in 146 B.C. Carthage was destroyed and Rome was victorious. This us yet more of the same warmongers that are seen governing and expanding empires. This being the state of facts even though at this time…

build the city of Italy for his son and govern his people as well. Even from the beginning of the book, Ascanius plays a major role in Aeneas’ journey to Italy. This little child gives Aeneas the purpose to continue after finally settling down in Carthage. He is the main component in pathos; the one who shifts Aeneas not only from existing as a typical duty bound, absolute, and disciplined hero, but also to one who takes in consideration of his loved ones and places their needs before his.…

built, to crack down on the pirates and rinse the sea in a very short amount of time. (Collins, p. 273) If not for Rome’s discipline, it would never have become the superpower it was, and the navy would never have stood up to other giants such as Carthage, Egypt and…

there is many books that tell the story about how Aeneas finds and founds his new homeland after Troy, his original homeland, is destroyed. Throughout his adventure he ends up in Carthage. Little does he know there would be an impactful woman by the name of Dido. Dido, the Phoenician exile and strong independent queen of Carthage is pushed into suffering from several different happenings and they turned her into less than what her potential is. Dido's brother, Pygmalion, contributed to the…

as the battles, storms, meeting people such as Dido, and more bad weather, are only events which postpone Aeneis’s destiny. At one point in the story, a storm causes their ship to land at Carthage, where Aeneis meets, and eventually falls in love with Dido, the leader of the city. Aeneis remains in Carthage for some time, ignoring his “destiny” to reach and found the city of Rome. When he decides to leave, Aeneas says to Dido, "I sail for Italy not of my own free will.” When he said this, he…

the Romans were not extraordinarily belligerent; in fact, they were just as aggressive as other polities. Eckstein’s main argument asserts that there existed a type of “interstate anarchy” in the ancient world, where almost all nations, such as Carthage, Greece, etc., engaged in aggressive battles and wars. Thus, Eckstein acknowledges that the Romans were violent in their warfare; yet, he concludes all other nations were just as aggressive in this system of international warfare. In addition,…

She had a great presence in the first half of The Aeneid. Aside from being Aeneas’s lover and an omen, she was also the ruler of Carthage whose story contains more strength than what Vergil (through Venus) gave her. The way that Vergil words his story shows the negative Roman societal outlook on the women and positive outlook on the men; however, Dido had more strength than Vergil…

emotions as well. All of Dido`s great accomplishments are over shaddowed by the extensive meaures she went to when Aeneas left her. Dido was a very powerful woman during her time, she was running Carthage on her own after her huband had died and during her rule Carthage was not poor or in need of an army. Carthage was powerful and were willing to help Aeneas in any way he needed, Dido provided Aeneas with many supplies. However you only get to see small pieces of how powerful her city was while…