Oddbean new post about login | logout What I would give to read a Carthegenian account of the Punic Wars
@2a70c54d just watched a documentary on Carthage's history as a trading empire for centuries while Rome was still mud and brick, and how over centuries Rome wrested those trade routes away. Then the propaganda.I already knew the senatorial class of Roman antiquity were ruthless in their greed, but it was shocking nonetheless.