Given the extensive representation of populations from the west. Med. in the Carthaginian army, it is not feasible to provide a comprehensive description of all of them. Focus will be on the key mercenary troops that frequently fought alongside the Carthaginians. The Iberians : In Thucydides’ account (6.90.3), the Athenian general Alcibiades, praises Iberian mercenaries…

Historically, Greco-Roman literature often assigned different stereotypes to Punics including the idea that they were not particularly inclined towards military matters. Indeed, it is evident that they had a distinct approach to warfare, possibly due to their focus on trade. The Phoenician colonial enterprise had primarily commercial objectives and took great care to avoid arousing…

One of the main reasons why the story of Carthage is so important to the story of Rome is because Carthage was its own empire large enough and strong enough to rival Rome. Carthage was originally a Phoenician colony, but while it inherited many of the characteristics of the Phoenicians, it developed its own personality…

Was Hitler a vegetarian? According to biomedical analysis of Hitler’s remains, the answer is yes. Additionally, because Nazi leaders were vegetarians, the first “vegetarian burger” was produced in Nazi Germany in 1940.

Secular religions included, for instance, the republicanism of Mazzini. Notwithstanding this distinction, Gentile tends also to make any pre-1914 secular religion into a forerunner of fascism, while other sources of fascism become ‘secondary’, or ‘circumstantial’ (E. Gentile, ‘The Conquest of Modernity: From Modernist Nationalism to Fascism’, Modernism-Modernity, 1 (1994), 55–87). He regards the search for…