Butterfly Effect
Season 3
Ep 10. Carthage: Rome's Rival
- April 25, 2019
- 26 min
In 814 BC, the exiled Phoenician queen Dido founds the city of Carthage on the African Coast. The city develops and takes the lead of a maritime empire based on trade. Carthage dominates the Western Mediterranean. But in the third century BC, she finds herself opposed to the Roman Republic.