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Tunisia: French Magazine Devotes Latest Issue to the History of Carthage
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Tunisia Online (Tunis)
24 April 2008
Posted to the web 28 April 2008
Tunis,
The French magazine "Les Cahiers de Science et vie" has devoted its latest (April /May) issue to the history of Carthage . The magazine's cover gives a panoramic view of the ancient city of Carthage and its sumptuous sites and gardens.
Evoking the Punic wars, the magazine's editorial writes that "it took all the might of a brilliant civilization, worthy heirs of the Phoenicians, the inventors of the first alphabet, to shake the formidable Roman war machine, as well as the military genius of an exceptional strategist, Hannibal, in order to compromise the future of an empire".
"Les Cahiers de Science et vie" dedicates four parts to its study of the ancient city, namely, " Carthage , a living legend", "the learning of power", " Carthage versus Rome ", and " Carthage from yesterday to today".
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In the first part, a feature article reveals that Carthage has become a reflection of modern Tunisia; in the same parting, in an interview with Prof M'hamed Hassine Fantar , the holder of the Ben Ali Chair for the dialogue of religions and civilizations says that the Carthaginian identity is composed of several layers, and that the ancient city owes its greatness to the fact of having managed to merge the Phoenician element with the numid element, thus establishing a synthesis between East and West.
The rest of the study shows how the rising might and prosperity of Carthage triggered Rome's ire and envy leading first to Hannibal's crossing of the Alps and subsequent siege of Rome, and later to the successive Punic wars, described as some of the most impressive conflict in antiquity and even in humanity.
Concerning Hannibal , the magazine writes that the Carthaginian general was primarily a cosmopolitan figure, who as a child was immersed in Greek culture and to whom Carthage pledged total allegiance even though he spent little time there. Hannibal 's military genius adds the article is simple: the enemy falls in the trap that he has himself laid, a strategy the mighty Carthaginian, successfully applied in the battle of Cannes .
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