Lecture 11: The Rise of Carthage
A. Modern Country of Tunisia, North Africa
B. Berbers
1. Barbaroi/Libyi- from ca. 5000 B.C.
2. No writtenlanguage, nomadic or semi-nomadic people
3. Relief of the Berber Gods from Beja, Tunisia
4. Syncretization
5. Troglodytes of Matmata
6. Portable lifestyle
7. Men and women's pottery
C. The Phoenician Arrival- ca,. 814 B.C. Queen Dido/Elissa
D.The Rise of Carthage
1. Dido and Aeneas
2. The Byrsa
3. Magonids
4. The Ports of Carthage- Appian, military and commercial harbors
5. Carthaginian religion
a. Sacred razors
b. Biberons
c. Tanit
d. Cymbals and bells
e. Isis and Horus/Demeter and Persephone, Mary and Jesus
f. Orfevery- granulation
g. The invention of mosaics
6. Voyages of exploration- 5th century B.C.
a. Himilco
b. Hanno the Navigator and the gorillas