Tom Holland

And then he's allowed to settle in a farm outside Rome.

So he survives.

The Roman deserters, of course, are put horribly to death.

The Carthaginians who surrendered, they are all enslaved, about 50,000 of them.

They're led out, men, women, children, all become slaves.

The city is systematically stripped of all its treasures.

No respect is shown.

The temples of the Carthaginian gods, they are demolished.

Carthage had a rich and venerable literary tradition.

All the libraries are emptied and given to the Numidians, who promptly seem to have lost them.

The Romans do keep one 28-volume treatise on agriculture, which they have translated into Latin.

Because obviously they're thinking, well, we want to take over these lands.

And this is the guide to how to, you know, how to make the fields flourish.

So we'll keep that.

But otherwise, all the wealth of Punic literature is gone.

So we have nothing.

We have no histories written by the Carthaginians.

And so as so often, you know, in these stories, whether it's the Belgians in the Congo or whatever.

Or indeed the Americans in the Great Plains.

We only have one side.