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Carthage burned for six days. After three long years of siege, in the spring of 146 BC Roman soldiers finally broke through the city’s defences and began to slaughter the population. But still the Car

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AFRICAN FOLKLORE

The cut-throat politics of Syracuse informed Plato’s thinking