Hannibal's Heel

In truth, in the Mediterranean world after Alexander the Great, where the countless cities of the Greeks had become more relaxed than they had been earlier about granting citizenship to in-comers, Carthage may have been unusually exclusive, adorned (like all non-Greek states) with a patina of Greek...

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Published inThe weekly standard (New York, N.Y.) Vol. 22; no. 7; p. 35
Main Author Lendon, J E
Format Magazine Article
LanguageEnglish
Published Washington Weekly Standard 24.10.2016
Subjects
Cities
Citizenship
Multiculturalism & pluralism
Italy
North Africa
Spain
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Summary:In truth, in the Mediterranean world after Alexander the Great, where the countless cities of the Greeks had become more relaxed than they had been earlier about granting citizenship to in-comers, Carthage may have been unusually exclusive, adorned (like all non-Greek states) with a patina of Greek culture but fully incorporating into her citizen body only immigrants from the region that originally sent her forth as a colony, Phoenicia in the Levant. Having blessed Carthage as diverse and multicultural, Hannibal's author unconsciously imagines Carthage's great opponent to be as monolithic in race, creed, and outlook as a white-shoe law firm in 1950s New York-and therefore (by an inevitable implicit logic) greedy, perfidious, and belligerent.
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