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Acknowledgements | p. xi |
Keys to the Maps | p. xiii |
Illustrations | p. xxi |
Sources of Images | p. xxiii |
Chronological Table | p. xxvi |
Sources of knowledge | p. xxxiii |
The Phoenicians in the West | p. 1 |
The Phoenicians | p. 1 |
Sidon and Tyre | p. 2 |
Settlements in the West | p. 3 |
Carthage: Foundation and Growth | p. 6 |
Tales of the foundation | p. 6 |
Legends and truths | p. 7 |
Carthage: site and potential | p. 12 |
State and Government | p. 20 |
Citizens and aristocrats | p. 20 |
Carthaginian names | p. 23 |
Praise from Greeks | p. 24 |
Chief magistrates: the sufetes | p. 25 |
Adirim: the senate of Carthage | p. 28 |
The mysterious 'pentarchies' | p. 31 |
The generals | p. 33 |
Nemesis of generals: the court of One Hundred and Four | p. 35 |
The assembly of citizens | p. 36 |
The Carthaginian 'sea empire' | p. 39 |
Carthage and North Africa | p. 39 |
Carthage and the Etruscans | p. 43 |
First treaty with Rome | p. 44 |
Projection of power: Sardinia | p. 45 |
Projection of power: Sicily | p. 47 |
Carthage, Spain and the Atlantic | p. 49 |
Hanno's Periplus | p. 51 |
Himilco's voyage | p. 54 |
An expansionist policy? | p. 55 |
Traders and landowners: Carthaginian society | p. 59 |
Trade and traders | p. 59 |
Land and landowning | p. 62 |
Workers and labourers | p. 67 |
Slaves | p. 69 |
The Cityscape of Carthage | p. 73 |
The growth of the city | p. 73 |
Temples and other sacred buildings | p. 76 |
Houses and shops | p. 82 |
Public buildings | p. 86 |
The land fortifications and the ports | p. 88 |
Religion and cultural life | p. 94 |
The gods and goddesses | p. 94 |
The 'tophet' and child sacrifice | p. 100 |
Literature at Carthage: did it exist? | p. 105 |
Visual art, including coinage | p. 108 |
Carthage in Africa | p. 124 |
Politics and rivalries: Mazeus-'Malchus' | p. 124 |
The Magonid ascendancy | p. 128 |
The end of the Magonids | p. 132 |
The ascendancy of Hanno 'the Great' | p. 134 |
Politics and war in the late 4th Century: Bomilcar's putsch | p. 138 |
The Libyans and Numidians | p. 142 |
Carthage at War: Sicily | p. 149 |
The Carthaginian war machine: the navy | p. 149 |
Carthage's armies | p. 153 |
Carthaginians and Greeks in the 5th Century | p. 163 |
Carthage vs Dionysius I | p. 166 |
Carthage and Timoleon | p. 170 |
The age of Agathocles: Carthage at bay | p. 172 |
Carthage and Pyrrhus | p. 176 |
The First War with Rome, and After | p. 178 |
The second and third treaties with Rome | p. 178 |
The outbreak of the war | p. 181 |
Phases of war: 264 to 257 | p. 183 |
Africa invaded and saved: 256 to 255 | p. 185 |
Victories, defeats, stalemate: 254 to 242 | p. 186 |
Peace and revolt | p. 189 |
The New Empire and Hannibal | p. 193 |
The Sardinia crisis | p. 193 |
The new empire in Spain | p. 194 |
The coming of the Second Punic War | p. 197 |
Hannibal invades Italy | p. 199 |
Hannibal, master of southern Italy | p. 201 |
Limitations and setbacks | p. 202 |
Metaurus, Zama and peace | p. 203 |
Hannibal's war: an assessment | p. 205 |
Revival and Destruction | p. 207 |
Politics and reforms | p. 207 |
Peace and plenty | p. 208 |
Carthage and Numidia | p. 211 |
Politics at home and war with Masinissa | p. 213 |
The outbreak of the Third Punic War | p. 214 |
The Third Punic War | p. 216 |
Carthage in History | p. 220 |
Notes | p. 224 |
Select Bibliography | p. 234 |
Index | p. 241 |
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