https://ancientrome.org/tags/carthage/ Recent content in Carthage on Ancient Rome Hugo en-us Tue, 05 May 2026 00:00:00 +0000 https://ancientrome.org/carthage-the-city-rome-had-to-destroy/ Tue, 05 May 2026 00:00:00 +0000 https://ancientrome.org/carthage-the-city-rome-had-to-destroy/ <p>Carthage must be destroyed. The phrase — Carthago delenda est — was reportedly repeated by Cato the Elder at the end of every Senate speech he gave, regardless of the speech&rsquo;s actual subject, in the years before the Third Punic War. It is probably apocryphal, or at least exaggerated, but it captures something true about the Roman relationship with Carthage: a fear and hostility so intense that it could only be resolved by elimination, and a political culture prepared to act on that resolution against a city that had been, by the 140s BC, effectively defanged by the terms of its previous defeat.</p>