Search Results: Utica

Utica (also Utique), 33km north of Tunis, was the first Phoenician colony on the North African coast. The strategically important port was an ally to Carthage in the First Punic War, but the city switched sides in the Second and Third Punic...

The Death of Cato of Utica, oil on canvas by Jean-Paul Laurens, 1863. Musée des Augustins, Toulouse.

Cato of Utica reading the Phaedo before committing suicide, Carrara marble sculpture by Jean-Baptiste Roman and François Rude, commissioned by King Louis-Philippe in 1832, finished in 1840. Louvre, Paris.

A fragment of a floor mosaic depicting a fishing scene. From Utica, modern-day Tunisia. Late 3rd or 4th century CE. (The British Museum, London)

The remains of a Roman house at Utica (Tunisia), once capital of the Roman province of Africa.

This mosaic wall shows a variety of birds, including a peacock within a meander border. From Utica, modern-day Tunisia. First half of the 3rd century CE. (The British Museum, London)

Carthage was a Phoenician city-state on the coast of North Africa (the site of modern-day Tunis) which, prior the conflict with Rome known as the Punic Wars (264-146 BCE), was the largest, most affluent, and powerful political entity in the...

Marcus Porcius Cato (95-46 BCE), better known as Cato the Younger or Cato of Utica, was an influential politician of the Roman Republic. As the great-grandson of Cato the Elder and a dedicated student of Stoicism, he believed in traditional...

Hamilcar Barca (c. 285 – c. 228 BCE) was a Carthaginian general active in the First Punic War (264-241 BCE). He then quashed a rebellion closer to home between 241 and 237 BCE before returning abroad, where he successfully expanded Carthaginian...

The prosperity of Phoenician cities such as Tyre, Sidon, and Byblos was based on trade, and it was the search for new commodities and new markets which resulted in the Phoenicians branching out from the narrow coastal strip of the Levant...