Third Punic War
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Nov 2, 2026
Tony RichardsonNARRATOR
Recording by Tony Richardson.
Tony RichardsonNARRATOR
Chapter nineteen, the Third Punic War and Fall of Carthage.
Tony RichardsonNARRATOR
Fifty years had passed since Zama.
Tony RichardsonNARRATOR
It was a period of great commercial prosperity for Carthage, but her government was weakening by the quarrels of conflicting factions.
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Tony RichardsonNARRATOR
The daughter, Sempronia, married Africanus the Younger.
Tony RichardsonNARRATOR
The sons, Tiberius and Gaius, grew up under the care of their noble and gifted mother, who was left a widow when they were mere boys.
Tony RichardsonNARRATOR
Tiberius, one sixty-four to one thirty-three, entered the army and served under his brother-in-law during the Third Punic War.
Tony RichardsonNARRATOR
Ten years later, in one thirty-six, he was quaestor in Spain, where he won the affections of the people by adhering to the mild policy which his father had previously followed.
Gary ArndtHOST
Carthage wasn't destroyed, but it was heavily in debt to Rome and limited in what it could do and in the size of its military.
Gary ArndtHOST
It continued to exist for another 50 years until the Third Punic War and its ultimate destruction.
Gary ArndtHOST
The Battle of Zama was more than the final confrontation between two of antiquity's greatest generals.
Gary ArndtHOST
It marked a turning point for the entire world.
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Worse still was the fate of Carthage over a century earlier.
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When the Romans won the Third Punic War, they did not just seek to humble, humiliate, and punish the Carthaginians.
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The Romans sought to wipe them from existence.
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Well known is the Roman destruction of the city of Carthage in modern-day Tunisia, as is the salting of the earth around the city, from which the Romans had hoped their enemies could never grow crops again.
Dan CarlinHOST
In 154, they're fighting in Spain.
Dan CarlinHOST
The Third Punic War happens in 149.
Dan CarlinHOST
The Fourth Macedonian War in 149.
Dan CarlinHOST
I mean, it's just over and over and over again and relentless.
Peter RobinsonHOST
For example.
Victor Davis HansonGUEST
I think it would've been like the First, Second, Third Punic War, or what we see in the Middle East with the '48, '56, '67, '73, 2006 war.
Victor Davis HansonGUEST
It's a bellum interruptum, and they didn't want that, and they were willing to pay the extra.
Victor Davis HansonGUEST
And they had societies that had been surprise attacked, and generations of American and British and Soviet citizens that were willing to pay that price.
Daniel GillespieHOST
We have seen this.
Daniel GillespieHOST
The Romans did this in Carthage in the Third Punic War.
Daniel GillespieHOST
The Nazis did this to Warsaw, Poland in 1944.
Daniel GillespieHOST
Dresden, Germany in 1945.
Michael KistPANELIST
You mentioned a double harbor, and I was thinking of the great harbor of Carthage.
Michael KistPANELIST
There are so many nods to Carthage in particular, which is a civilization that was sacked and lost essentially in the Third Punic War.
Michael KistPANELIST
There are so many Roman references.
Michael KistPANELIST
Where did you get the idea to incorporate those things? Was there any connective tissue into what was going on with the major theme of the book?
Tony RobinsonNARRATOR
"When do you think this fruit was picked? It was picked at Carthage only three days ago.
Tony RobinsonNARRATOR
That is how close the enemy is to our walls." The metaphor of fresh figs upset the senators so much that they voted the Third Punic War against the Carthaginians.
Tony RobinsonNARRATOR
[dramatic music] Carthago delenda, Carthage must be destroyed, and Cato's wish was fulfilled.
Tony RobinsonNARRATOR
[soldiers marching] [dramatic music] Two centuries later in 98 AD, under the reign of Trajan, the Roman Empire was at its height.
Geoffrey EdwardsNARRATOR
Sometimes also they are declared.
Geoffrey EdwardsNARRATOR
Upon Marcus Cato's counsel, for example, the Third Punic War was undertaken, and in its conduct his influence was dominant, even after he was dead.
Geoffrey EdwardsNARRATOR
And so diplomacy in the friendly settlement of controversies is more desirable than courage in settling them on the battlefield.
Geoffrey EdwardsNARRATOR
But we must be careful not to take that course merely for the sake of avoiding war rather than for the sake of public expediency.