Carthage: The Roman Holocaust

Episode 1 (1x1)

Fecha de emisión: May 08, 2004

Part one of two. Historian and archaeologist Dr Richard Miles explores why Rome's leaders were so intent on destroying the rival empire of Carthage. Miles visits key sites of the period to assess what made the exotic civilization such a threat, and reveals how the destruction of this largely forgotten culture has been called the Hiroshima of the classical world