Carthage
205Alps and Americas: Rome and Their Enemies
9 Sep 2024
18:01¶ 48
“So we were in Sicily and Syracuse. After some initial swapping of sides, what it comes down to is that Rome and Carthage both…”
35:30¶ 106
“They figured, “Well, the alternative is we can either try to talk Rome down off of this later and fight and save ourselves now,…”
36:18¶ 110
“Yes. Things that make this significant – first of all, the Carthaginians were Phoenicians. By the way, Phoenician/Punic – Greeks invented the name Phoenicia…”
188A is for Alphabet, Artist, and Ahab
8 Apr 2024
38:50¶ 102
“One last thing about this. With the destruction of Tyre and Sidon we shift to Carthage, which was a colony far to the west…”
39:29¶ 103
“The Carthaginians continued the Phoenician custom of being mariners, middlemen, and merchants going to the far corners of the earth, and we’ll talk more…”
41:12¶ 107
“Barry Fell’s take on this is that the Carthaginians did develop some kind of regular trading route into the Americas. They would take their…”
187Purple Dye and Child Sacrifice
1 Apr 2024
29:48¶ 89
“Exactly. This brings us in passing to Carthage. In his book The Everlasting Man, G.K. Chesterton tries to draw a contrast between the gods…”
30:50¶ 91
“Chesterton in his book is trying to defend Rome, because Rome had the nicer gods and Rome saved the world from worldwide Baalism by…”
32:12¶ 95
“I mentioned Asimov, and one of the reasons he came to mind is that he wrote a little short story called “The Dead Past.”…”
83Baal and Astarte
13 Sep 2021
13:01¶ 58
“Across the sea, however, was Carthage. These were Phoenicians. These were Canaanites. They sacrificed their children to Molech. Isn’t it a wonderful thing that…”
12:08¶ 57
“G.K. Chesterton, on the other hand, has a chapter or two in The Everlasting Man where he contrasts Carthage and Rome. Now, being a…”