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Carthage in Flames (Italian: Cartagine in fiamme) is a 1960 Italian historical drama film directed by Carmine Gallone and starring Pierre Brasseur, José Suárez, Daniel Gélin and Anne Heywood. [1] It was shot at the Cinecittà Studios in Rome. The film's sets were designed by the art director Guido Fiorini.
They reveal changes in how Rome perceived itself and how Carthage perceived Rome, and the differences between the perception of the cities and their actual characteristics. As city-states that became empires, Rome and Carthage eventually found it necessary to formalize their reciprocal interests and zones of influence. For centuries, the two ...
By 264 BC Carthage was the dominant external power on the island, and Carthage and Rome were the preeminent powers in the western Mediterranean. [25] Relationships were good, and the two states had several times declared their mutual friendship in formal alliances: in 509 BC, 348 BC and around 279 BC. There were strong commercial links.
French film made by Georges Méliès, the earliest known version considered to be lost, retrieved 2005 Antony and Cleopatra: 1908 a film starring Maurice Costello and Florence Lawrence Cléopâtre: 1910 French film by Henri Andréani and Ferdinand Zecca: Cléopâtre: 1912 new silent version after the play of Victorien Sardou (dir. by Charles L ...
Carthage became a centre of early Christianity.In the first of a string of rather poorly reported councils at Carthage a few years later, 70 bishops attended. Tertullian later broke with the mainstream that was increasingly represented in the West by the primacy of the Bishop of Rome, but a more serious rift among Christians was the Donatist controversy, against which Augustine of Hippo spent ...
Following Carthage's destruction, Rome established Africa Proconsularis, its first province in Africa, which roughly corresponded to Carthaginian territory. Utica , which had allied itself with Rome during the final war, was granted tax privileges and made the regional capital, subsequently becoming the leading center of Punic trade and culture.
The First Punic War was fought from 264 to 241 BC between Carthage and Rome: these two main powers of the western Mediterranean in the 3rd century BC struggled for supremacy primarily on the Mediterranean island of Sicily and its surrounding waters and in North Africa. [1] The war lasted for 23 years until the Carthaginians were defeated.
Territory controlled by Rome and Carthage at the start of the First Punic War In 264 BC, the states of Carthage and Rome went to war, starting the First Punic War. [ 20 ] Carthage was a well-established maritime power in the western Mediterranean ; mainland Italy south of the River Arno had recently been unified under Roman control .