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What Civilizations attempted to Colonize and Rule Spain?

August 3, 2024 By Robin Levin Leave a Comment

Around 800 B.C. Phoenicians began colonizing Spain, establishing the city of Gades (Cadiz) in the southwest corner of Spain. Greeks also established settlements like Emporion on the east coast of Spain. Carthage, a Phoenician speaking city on the north coast of Africa attempted to colonize and rule Spain during the third century B.C. Hamilcar Barca, […]

Filed Under: Ancient Rome, Carthage Tagged With: Battle of Dertosa, Battles of the Upper Baetis, Gneius Cornelius Scipio, Hamilcar Barca, Hannibal, Hasdrubal the Fair, Lusitania, Numantia, publius cornelius scipio africanus, Publius Cornelius Scipio the Elder, Saguntum

How Was Rome Affected by the Punic Wars?

January 23, 2021 By Robin Levin Leave a Comment

The Punic Wars brought about Rome’s vast increase in power and at same time a significant moral decline. From the introduction in my book The Death of Carthage: “As warlike as they were, the Romans of the third century B.C. maintained certain principles that were gradually lost in the second century B.C.. The first of […]

Filed Under: Carthage Tagged With: Adrian Goldsworthy, Aemilius Paullus, Carthage, Corinth, Epirus, King Perseus of Macedonia, Lusitania, Numantia, Publius Sulpicius Galba, Punic Wars, rome

The Moral Decline of Ancient Rome

August 24, 2012 By Robin Levin Leave a Comment

The period of the Punic Wars was a critical time in the history of Western civilizaition. They saw the rise of Rome as the dominant power in the civilized world and, no less important, its concomitant moral decline. From its beginnings under its founder Romulus, Rome had always been a warlike society and its history […]