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Carthage : A Biography

Cover -- Half Title -- Series Page -- Title page -- Copyright page -- Contents -- List of illustrations -- Maps -- Acknowledgements -- 1. Dido's city -- Foundation -- The early city -- Society and state -- 2. Trade and the beginnings of empire -- Trade, wealth, and growth -- Commercial expansio...

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Main Author: Hoyos, Dexter (Author)
Document Type: Online Resource Book
Language:English
Published: Milton : Taylor & Francis Group , 2017
Series:Cities of the Ancient World Ser
Online Access:http://proxy.fid-lizenzen.de/han/proquest-ebook-central-altertum/ebookcentral.proquest.com/lib/bsbfidaltertumswissenschaften/detail.action?docID=6404971
E-Book Packages:ProQuest Ebook Central : Classical Studies Collection
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520 |a 10. Christianity and Carthage -- The second and third centuries -- Donatism vs orthodoxy -- 11. Carthage Vandalised -- Count Bonifatius and the Vandals -- Geiseric, king of Carthage -- Vandal government and religion -- Vandal Carthage: literature and propaganda -- 12. Byzantine Carthage -- Reconquest and reconstruction -- Warfare and violence -- Carthage, North Africa, and the Three Chapters -- A coup d'état from Carthage -- Carthage in the seventh century -- The first Arab invasions -- The fall of Carthage -- 13. Conclusion -- Appendix on sources -- References -- Index. 
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