Skip to content
Wellsprings

Carthage

Africa Proconsularis

Carthage, near modern Tunis on the coast of Tunisia, was the Phoenician-founded power destroyed by Rome in 146 BC at the end of the Third Punic War and later refounded as a Roman colony. The historian Polybius witnessed and recorded its final destruction. Under Rome, Carthage was the milieu of the Latin author and Middle Platonist Apuleius, who studied and lectured there.

12 most-discussed ideas

Teachers who lived here

Works composed here

  • 258

    The Epistles of Cyprian.

    by Cyprian

  • 258

    The Life and Passion of Cyprian, Bishop and Martyr. By Pontius the Deacon.

    by Cyprian

  • 258

    The Seventh Council of Carthage under Cyprian. Concerning the Baptism of Heretics.

    by Cyprian

  • 258

    The Treatises of Cyprian.

    by Cyprian

  • 258

    Treatises Attributed to Cyprian on Questionable Authority.

    by Cyprian

  • —

    Apologia

    by Apuleius

  • —

    Metamorphoses

    by Apuleius

  • —

    Florida

    by Apuleius

Ideas shaped here

Concepts most frequently discussed in the works composed at Carthage. Click any to trace the idea across time and place.

Explore the interactive map →← All places