CLST 201 Lecture : Wk3L01.docx
28 Jan 2013
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Carthage powerful, wealthy commercial city with a great fleet. Carthage is very close to italy across from sicily (10 miles map looks more like 75 miles. Carthage had ratified treaties to protect her trading ventures in w. mediteranean carthage controlled n africa, controlled w siciliy, sardinia and corsica, and s spain. She had made a treaty with rome and allies, and greeks who were in massilia (modern day marseilles). Carthage wanted to control all w. med, and had the sea power to do it. She was wary of rome"s rapidly rising power. Clash of the titans predicted 9 centuries earlier. Aenius" fleet from greek to italy blown off course, landed in carthage. Virgil"s aenia provides mythical explanation for bitter enmity for bitter rivalry between rome and carthage. Aenius, who laid foundations for new race of romans; dido loved him; aenius was reminded by mercury, messenger god, that he had a higher destiny to fulfill (to found the roman race).
