The Life Of A Carthaginian Merchant (or a bit of it anyway)

We know very little about life in Carthage compared to other ancient civilizations. Despite this lets see if we can reconstruct the life of Hanno, your average Carthaginian merchant.

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Sources:

1 - Plautus, Titus Maccius., and Wolfgang David Cirilo de Melo. Plautus. Harvard University Press, 2011.

2 - Hoyos, B. Dexter. The Carthaginians. Routledge, 2010.

3 - Moscati, Sabatino. The Phoenicians. Rizzoli, 1999.

5 - Munn, Mary Lou Zimmerman. “Corinthian Trade with the Punic West in the Classical Period.” Corinth, vol. 20, 2003, p. 195., doi:10.2307/4390724.

6 - Franko, George Fredric. “The Characterization of Hanno in Plautus' Poenulus.” American Journal of Philology, vol. 117, no. 3, 1996, pp. 425–452., doi:10.1353/ajp.1996.0041.

7 - Rives, James B. “Tertullian on Child Sacrifice.” Museum Helveticum, vol. 51, no. 1, 1994, pp. 54–63. JSTOR, www.jstor.org/stable/24818326. Accessed 18 Dec. 2020.

8 - Xella, P., Quinn, J., Melchiorri, V., & Dommelen, P. (2013). Cemetery or sacrifice? Infant burials at the Carthage Tophet: Phoenician bones of contention. Antiquity, 87(338), 1199-1207. doi:10.1017/S0003598X00049966

Disclaimer: Use my videos as a rough guide to a topic. I am not an expert, I may get things wrong. This is why I always post my sources so you can critique my work and verify things for yourselves. Of course I aim to be as accurate as possible which is why you will only find reputable sources in my videos. Secondly, information is always subject to changes as new information is uncovered by archaeologists.

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