Images

A Carthaginian hoplite from the Sacred Band, the army corps composed of Carthaginian citizens. Taken from a coin of Syracuse, 4th century BCE.

A Punic gilded bronze cuirass from Ksour Essaf, 3rd-2nd century BCE. (Bardo National Museum, Tunisia)

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

A floor mosaic from Roman Utica (modern Tunisia) depicting a hunt in marshlands, 200-225 CE. (British Museum, London)

An artist's impression of how a troop of Carthaginian mercenaries may have appeared in battle formation.

A gold coin from Syracuse depicting the tyrant Agathocles, 310-300 BCE. (Palazzo Blu, Pisa)

A red-figure vase depicting one of the Furies hovering over Hippolytos, an attendant, and Phaedra. 330-310 BCE. (Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York)

A red-figure vase depicting Orestes being pursued by one of the Furies at Delphi after he murdered his mother Clytemnestra. From Paestum, 330 BCE. (British Museum, London)

Carthaginian silver dishekel. The head has been identified as Hamilcar Barca (c. 285 – c. 228 BCE). Minted in Carthago Nova, Spain, 237-227 BCE.

In this elaborately carved figure, the iconographical features of both Apollo and Dionysos, the wine god, have been fused.; the slipping himation and the sensual treatment of the flesh are typical of Dionysos, while the kithara and quiver...