* Beowulf's landing, an awkward reception at first, and stay at Heorot, being begged to stay there to fight king Hrothgar's enemies paralleling Aeneas ' landing and stay at Carthage, again, awkward at first, including being begged to stay there to fight the queen's enemies, but the hero decides to leave in spite of being promised great wealth and privilege.

Cyprian, Bishop of Carthage, said that the first commandment given to men was to increase and multiply, but now that the earth was full there was no need to continue this process of multiplication.

During the last half of the 4th century BC, the time of Pytheas ' voyage, Massaliotes were presumably free to operate as they pleased ; there is, at least, no evidence of conflict with Carthage in any of the sources that touch on the voyage.

According to Polybius there had been several trade agreements between Rome and Carthage, even a mutual alliance against king Pyrrhus of Epirus.

After Carthage emerged victorious from the Mercenary War there were two opposing factions: the reformist party was led by Hamilcar Barca while the other, more conservative, faction was represented by Hanno the Great and the old Carthaginian aristocracy.

Including these towns there were altogether twenty which are known to have received at one time or another the title and status of Roman colonies ; and in the 5th century the Notitia Dignitatum enumerates no less than 123 sees whose bishops assembled at Carthage in 479.

In reality, it would seem that Orosius ’ s main task was to assist Jerome and others against Pelagius, who, after the synod of Carthage in 411, had been living in Palestine, and finding some acceptance there.

Mahan describes in the preface to The Influence of Sea Power upon History how the Romans used their sea power to effectively block the sea lines of communication of Hannibal with Carthage ; and so via a maritime strategy achieved Hannibal's removal from Italy, despite never beating him there with their legions.

City leaders told the State that Carthage was on too steep of a hill for locomotives to climb and that access to the University would be limited if built there.

Due to dwindling enrollment numbers during the 1950s, Carthage decided to open another campus in Kenosha, Wisconsin in 1962, intending to eventually relocate the college there.

He is also credited with the erotic poem The Choice of Valentines and his name appears on the title page of Christopher Marlowe's Dido, Queen of Carthage, though there is uncertainty as to what Nashe's contribution was.

Though Carthage had been reduced in power following the Second Punic War, there was still lingering resentment in Rome.

Cyprian, Bishop of Carthage said that the first commandment given to men was to increase and multiply, but now that the earth was full there was no need to continue this process of multiplication.

Since 264 BC, when they had declared war on Carthage, there had not been much serious fighting between the two except for a small fight in the straits of Messana.

While he was there, a mob of about 200 armed men stormed Carthage Jail in the late afternoon of June 27, 1844, and both Joseph and his brother Hyrum were killed.

In fact he arrived at the Numidian harbor, at exactly the same time as Hasdrubal ( who had fled from Spain ) anchored there on his way back to Carthage.

In 183 BC he was sent to negotiate with Prusias I of Bithynia in an attempt to capture Hannibal, who had been exiled there from Carthage, but Hannibal committed suicide to avoid being taken prisoner.

According to another historian ( Warmington ), there were three ancients of Carthage called Hanno " given the same nickname ", that is the Great, but he conjectures that it was a family nickname or a term not well understood by the ancient Greek or Roman writers.

In all, there were many historical figures named Hanno in ancient Carthage.

The Roman province of Africa ( named for a people who lived there ) was established after the Romans defeated Carthage in the Third Punic War.

The Carthage Bulldogs faced the Celina Bobcats at Texas Stadium, becoming the last high school football game played there.

According to him, the Punic language was still spoken in his region ( Northern Africa ) in the 5th century AD, centuries after the fall of Carthage, and there were still people who called themselves " chanani " ( Canaanite, i. e: Carthaginian ) at that time.

Vanderlyn then went to Rome, where he painted his picture of Marius amid the Ruins of Carthage, which was shown in Paris, and obtained the Napoleon gold medal there.

On June 27, 1844, Joseph Smith and his brother Hyrum were murdered by a mob in Carthage, Illinois, while being held on charges of treason.

The other 50 % were with the emperor ( s ) in his or their Comitatus, with the praetorian prefects, with the grain supply officials in the capital ( later, the capitals, Rome and Constantinople ), Alexandria, and Carthage and officials from the central offices located in the provinces.

The series of wars between Rome and Carthage were known to the Romans as the " Punic Wars " because of the Latin name for the Carthaginians: Punici, derived from Phoenici, referring to the Carthaginians ' Phoenician ancestry.

The main blockade targets were the important ports, since neither Carthage nor Rome were based in Sicily and both needed continuous reinforcements and communication with the mainland.

The terms of the Treaty of Lutatius designed by the Romans were particularly heavy for Carthage, which had lost bargaining power following its defeat at the Aegates islands.

They defeated the Vandals, who were caught completely off-guard, at Ad Decimum on 14 September 533 and Tricamarum in December ; Belisarius took Carthage.

Their most famous colonies were Cadiz in today ’ s Spain and Carthage in today ’ s Tunisia.

After gradual decline of its strength, Phoenician city states on the Lebanese coast were conquered outright by the Achaemenid dynasty of Persia, which organized it as a satrapy, though many of Phoenician colonies continued their independent existence-most notably Carthage.

On June 27, 1844, Joseph Smith and his brother Hyrum were killed by a mob in Carthage, Illinois.

An alternate theory holds that by the 4th century BC, the western Greeks, especially the Massaliotes, were on amicable terms with Carthage.

Rome could use Sicilian markets, Carthage could buy and sell goods at Rome, and slaves taken by Carthage from allies of Rome were to be set free.

Procopius recorded a few of the extreme weather events of 535-536, although these were presented as a backdrop to Byzantine military activities, such as a mutiny, in and near Carthage.

He confirmed the decrees of the council of Carthage, after the retaking of North Africa from the Vandals, according to which converts from Arianism were declared ineligible to Holy Orders and those already ordained were merely admitted to lay communion.

But starting this war would not be an easy task considering those recent struggles with Carthage — many Romans were too tired of conflict to think of embarking on another campaign.

The Punic Wars were a series of three wars fought between Rome and Carthage from 264 BC to 146 BC.

Some of them were caught and punished by Carthage, aggravating the political climate which had started to improve in recognition of the old alliance and treaties.

While Hamilcar was able to obtain the resources for his aim, the Numidians in the Atlas Mountains were not conquered, like Hanno suggested, but became vassals of Carthage.

The propositions drawn up by the deacon Paulinus of Milan, on account of which Caelestius had been condemned at Carthage in 411, were laid before him.

When the Achaean hostages were released in 150 BC, Polybius was granted leave to return home, but the next year he went on campaign with Scipio Aemilianus to Africa, and was present at the capture of Carthage, which he later described.