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Hasdrubal I of Carthage — Magonid king of Ancient Carthage 530–510 BC; Hasdrubal the Fair (c. 270 BC – 221 BC), son-in-law of Hamilcar Barca; Hasdrubal Barca (245–207 BC), son of Hamilcar Barca and brother of Hannibal and Mago; Hasdrubal Gisco Gisgonis (died 202 BC), another commander in the Second Punic War, father of Sophonisba
Marcus Atilius Regulus (fl. 267 – 255 BC) was a Roman statesman and general who was a consul of the Roman Republic in 267 BC and 256 BC. Much of his career was spent fighting the Carthaginians during the first Punic War.
The name Carthage (/ ˈ k ɑːr θ ɪ dʒ / KAR-thij) is the Early Modern anglicisation of Middle French Carthage /kartaʒə/, [12] from Latin Carthāgō and Karthāgō (cf. Greek Karkhēdōn (Καρχηδών) and Etruscan *Carθaza) from the Punic qrt-ḥdšt (𐤒𐤓𐤕 𐤇𐤃𐤔𐤕 ) "new city", [b] implying it was a "new Tyre". [14]
Aeneas tells Dido of the fall of Troy. (Guérin 1815)Carthage was founded by Phoenicians coming from the Levant.The city's name in Phoenician language means "New City". [5] There is a tradition in some ancient sources, such as Philistos of Syracuse, for an "early" foundation date of around 1215 BC – that is before the fall of Troy in 1180 BC; however, Timaeus of Taormina, a Greek historian ...
Gisco, also known as Gesco [1] and Gesgo, [2] was a citizen of the city state of Carthage, [1] which was located in what is now Tunisia.By the mid-3rd century BC it had come to dominate much of the coastal regions of North Africa, southern Spain, the Balearic Islands, Corsica, Sardinia, and the western half of Sicily in a military and commercial empire. [3]
It is a companion piece to the artist's 1815 work Dido building Carthage portraying the mythical foundation of Carthage by Dido. The painting was exhibited at the Royal Academy's 1817 Summer Exhibition his only work on display that year. One review considered it "excelling in the higher qualities of art, mind and poetical conception, even ...
Cabiria (full video). Cabiria is a 1914 Italian epic silent film, directed by Giovanni Pastrone and shot in Turin.The film is set in ancient Sicily, Carthage, and Cirta during the period of the Second Punic War (218–202 BC).
Levin gave Shohat his permission shortly before his death, [4] and Shohat, who also knew upon seeing the play that he wanted to adapt it into an opera, [2] began working on the music. [5] Shohat's opera is the first operatic adaptation of a Levin work. [3] Shohat and Nitzan adapted the Hebrew-language libretto from Levin's text, making only ...