Carthage

  • Owen Jarus – LiveScience’s guy-who-writes-stuff-in-our-purview – in addition to the piece on Hadrian’s Wall we mentioned a few days ago, has also done a feature on Carthage … worth a look …

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  • I could have sworn I posted a link to this when it just resided at the Internet Archive, but it has been posted to Youtube, so I might as well do it again … it’s from the Prelinger Archives and is silent, but I haven’t been able to get a date on it:

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  • Dido’s Legacy

    Interesting feature from Tunisia Live: Her story ends in suicide, caught up in the flames of a funeral pyre. Scholars of ancient literature know it well, Virgil’s tragic tale of a lustful Queen of Tyre, in the epic poem the Aeneid. But less well-known is the legend, passed down in oral form, of a heroine…

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