Title : Carthage - Daniel Rondeau - book
Summary :
After his books on Tangier , Alexandria and Istanbul , Daniel Rondeau takes his readers to the heart of history and mythology. Here we are in the silence of Carthage, the city of human sacrifices, the rival of Rome, wiped off the world map by the will of the Roman Scipio Aemilianus in the 2nd century BC. Today, an outlying district of Tunis, Carthage was an African city where the old Orient lived for a long time before becoming one of the capitals of Christianity (in the 3rd and 4th centuries). Here the East and the West have never ceased to speak to each other, to fight, to meet, to love each other.
Daniel Rondeau's story pays tribute to the women who carried the city's flag, notably to Elyssa, the founder, who came from Phoenicia in the 7th century BC, and to the men like Hannibal who made it known throughout the world. Carthage is a meditation on history, on the passing of time, on war, on the great fire of the world that never goes out, but also on historians (Herodotus, Thucydides, Polybius) and on literature. The author gives pride of place to Virgil, to Saint Augustine, who lived for a long time in Carthage where he had his first romantic experiences, and to Flaubert who resurrected the vanished city in Salammbô . Carthage is also a topical book on the relations between the East and the West, which will be published at the time of the great debate on the creation of a possible Euro-Mediterranean association.
- EAN: 9782841113927
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