Carthage (Phoenician Kart hadašt, "new city"): important ancient city, close to modern Tunis.Texts on Carthage
The foundation legend (by Justin)
The story of Hanno
The battle of Himera
Carthage's Constitution (Aristotle)
The Carthaginian-Syracusan peace of 405 (Diodorus)
The Philaeni (Sallust)
Timoleon's defeat of the Carthaginians (Plutarch)
The First…
Sozomen was a Christian author, who lived in the first half of the fifth century and wrote an Ecclesiastical History. The following story (5.10) may be true, although the remarks about sacred prostitution are probably innuendo. The translator is unknown.
Spalatum or Aspalathos (Greek: Ασπάλαθος): port in Dalmatia, famous as residence of the retired emperor Diocletian, modern Split.History
Ruins of Spalatum today
s.III-II BCE:…
Sparta (Greek Σπάρτα): one of the main city-states of ancient Greece, leader of the Peloponnesian League. The city-state is also called Lacedaemon.History
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Spartacus: leader of an army of runaway slaves that shook Italy in 73-71 BCE. He was defeated by the Roman general Crassus.Italian slavery
The Roman economy was based on agriculture and war. For centuries, a Roman citizen was a peasant and…
Pylos/Sphacteria: site of a small but important battle during the Peloponnesian War (431-404), during which the Athenian general Demosthenes and the statesman Cleon captured 292 Spartan soldiers, including 120 elite Spartiates (425 BCE).
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Barsine or Statira (340/339-320): daughter of the Persian king Darius III Codomannus, married to Alexander the Great.
Achaemenid woman
When the daughter…
In India, Alexander the Great (or his representative Onesicritus) had an interview with the Brahman sages, who lived near Taxila. One of these people, a man named Calanus (Indian Kalyana), followed the conqueror to the west, where he died. The…
At the beginning of our era, the Greek scientist Strabo of Amasia published his Geography, which includes the following description of Tyre. Geography 16.2.23 is offered here in the translation by H. L. Jones.