The Phoenicians: The Purple Empire of the Ancient WorldMorrow, 1975 - 288 pages Examines the history, people, culture, civilization, and achievements of the Phoenicians, whose supremacy in shipbuilding and navigation enabled them to be masters of the ancient world for three hundred years. |
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... Punic War began with a strange prologue . The scene was Messana . The town in the straits was occupied at that time by Campanian mercenaries , one - time auxiliaries of Agathocles , who called themselves Mamertines , or sons of Mars ...
... Punic War began with a strange prologue . The scene was Messana . The town in the straits was occupied at that time by Campanian mercenaries , one - time auxiliaries of Agathocles , who called themselves Mamertines , or sons of Mars ...
Page 243
... Punic elephants — a weapon which the Carthaginians had got to know when fighting Pyrrhus - were too much for his legionaries . They were surrounded , trampled down and decimated , and Regulus was taken prisoner . Carthage was now able ...
... Punic elephants — a weapon which the Carthaginians had got to know when fighting Pyrrhus - were too much for his legionaries . They were surrounded , trampled down and decimated , and Regulus was taken prisoner . Carthage was now able ...
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... Punic terrain in Spain ; and finally , under Scipio Africanus the Elder , crossed to North Africa , where they took Tunis and began to set out their peace terms . But before these were settled , the Carthaginians recalled their general ...
... Punic terrain in Spain ; and finally , under Scipio Africanus the Elder , crossed to North Africa , where they took Tunis and began to set out their peace terms . But before these were settled , the Carthaginians recalled their general ...
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The Bedouins of the Sea II | 11 |
The City in the Cedar Grove | 27 |
The Coming of the Aryans | 39 |
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