Carthage

Part of Fall of Civilizations

Three and a half hours on Carthage as a civilisation in its own right, with the sound design Cooper is known for. Carthage is the subject here and Rome the visitor.

Part of Dan Snow's History Hit · Dan Snow on history's defining moments; only the Roman episodes are indexed

Part of The Ancients

What the city was like to live in, from the harbour to the tophet, which is the part every account of the wars skips.

Part of Tides of History

With Bret Devereaux

Bret Devereaux on what made the Republic so hard to kill: the manpower pool, the terms it gave its allies, and a political system that could absorb Cannae. Sixty- seven minutes.

Part of The Rest Is History

Holland and Sandbrook's four-part Carthage run, and the most entertaining way into the subject. Start at part one; they build.

Part of The Rest Is History

Part two, sixty-one minutes on the Battle of Ibera and on Scipio in Spain, which is where the Punic War was settled while everyone was watching Italy.

Part of The Ancients

With Eve MacDonald

The third war, which was not really a war: a disarmed city destroyed because Cato kept demanding it. Also disposes of the salting of the earth, which is a nineteenth-century invention.

Part of The Rest Is History

Part four, sixty minutes on 146 BC, when Rome went back and finished it: the city burned, the site cursed, and the Mediterranean left with one power in it.

Part of Tides of History

With Bret Devereaux

Bret Devereaux on the uncomfortable answer: Carthage was a threat because it was the state most like Rome, with the same reach and the same appetite. Fifty-nine minutes.

Part of The Rest Is History

Part one of two, fifty-eight minutes on where Carthage came from and on whether it really burned its children. The archaeology of the tophet is the hinge of that argument.

Part of The Rest Is History

Part one, fifty-five minutes on Hamilcar rebuilding Carthaginian power in Spain and on the son he raised inside that project.

Part of The Ancients

With Eve MacDonald

Eve MacDonald on Carthage as a Phoenician colony on the Tunisian coast that outgrew the mother city at Tyre. Fifty-four minutes before Rome enters the story at all.

Part of The Rest Is History

Part two, fifty-three minutes on the constitution Aristotle admired and the trade network that paid for it, across the ninth century BC to the second.

Part of The Rest Is History

Part four, fifty-three minutes on the collision itself, between an upstart that had taken Italy and a city that had run the western sea for centuries.

Part of Ancient Warfare Podcast

With Josho Brouwers

Fifty-one minutes on 264 to 241 BC, the longest unbroken war in antiquity, fought mostly at sea by a Rome that had no fleet when it started.

Part of Ithaca Bound · Andrew Schiestel on the Mediterranean, 2021 to 2022; only the Roman episodes are indexed

Part of Ancient Greece Declassified · Conversations that take in Greece and the wider ancient world; only the Roman episodes are indexed

Part of The Rest Is History

Part three, forty-nine minutes on how the two of them ended up in the same sea with the same ambitions and no way of sharing it.

Part of The Ancients

480 BC is remembered for Thermopylae and Salamis, and in the same year Carthage and the Sicilian Greeks fought at Himera. Forty-seven minutes on the war nobody teaches.

Part of The Hellenistic Age Podcast · The three centuries between Alexander and Actium; only the Roman episodes are indexed

Part of Ithaca Bound · Andrew Schiestel on the Mediterranean, 2021 to 2022; only the Roman episodes are indexed

Part of Tides of History

Forty-two minutes on Syracuse, the third power in the central Mediterranean, which fought Carthage for a century and is missing from most Roman accounts.

Part of Tides of History

Forty-two minutes on Hamilcar Barca rebuilding Carthage out of Spanish silver after the First Punic War, which is where the second one actually begins.

Part of Tides of History

Forty-one minutes tracking Carthage from Phoenician outpost to the edge of empire around 500 BC, told as its own history with Rome still a small town.

Part of Tides of History

Forty minutes on Sicily as the contested ground between Carthage and the Greek tyrants, in the same year Xerxes came down on Greece.

Part of Tides of History

Forty minutes on Carthage turning economic weight into territory in Sicily, timed to the moment Athens destroyed its own expedition there.

Part of The Hellenistic Age Podcast · The three centuries between Alexander and Actium; only the Roman episodes are indexed

Part of Ithaca Bound · Andrew Schiestel on the Mediterranean, 2021 to 2022; only the Roman episodes are indexed

Part of Ancient History Hound · Ancient Blogger on Greece, Rome and antiquity for every level; only the Roman episodes are indexed

Part of Tides of History

Thirty-seven minutes on Messana, a small city and a small incident that started twenty-three years of war neither side had a reason to want.

Part of Expanding Eyes: A Visionary Education · Lectures on literature and mythology; only the Roman episodes are indexed

Part of Tides of History

Thirty-three minutes touring the whole sea in 146 BC, region by region, at the moment it became one power's lake.

Part of The Rest Is History

With Juliette Pochin

Thirty minutes on Dido, whom Virgil placed three centuries out of her own time so that she could meet Aeneas. Juliette Pochin sings the Lament at the end.

Part of Echoes of Empires

Twenty-seven minutes on Belisarius sailing for Carthage in June 533 with everyone expecting him to fail. He took the Vandal kingdom in six months.

Part of Triumvir Clio's School of Classical Civilization · Ancient literature for people who want to start reading it; only the Roman episodes are indexed

Part of The Pax Romana Podcast

Twenty-one minutes on the first Roman fleet, built during the war with Carthage by copying a wrecked ship.

Part of Echoes of Empires

Twenty-one minutes on the armada of 468, the largest the eastern empire ever sent west, burnt at anchor by Vandal fireships.

Part of Triumvir Clio's School of Classical Civilization · Ancient literature for people who want to start reading it; only the Roman episodes are indexed

Part of Kings and Generals · Military history in campaigns and battles; only the Roman episodes are indexed

Part of Ancient Warfare Podcast

Eleven minutes on Carthaginian and Syracusan warfare in the fifth and fourth centuries BC, long before Rome was anyone's problem.

Part of The Ancients

With Andy Merrills

Andy Merrills on the Vandals, who crossed Gaul and Spain, took Carthage in 439 and ran North Africa as a kingdom for a century. Forty-nine minutes.