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Abstract
With the end of the Punic Wars (264 - 146 BC), Rome overcame Carthage and became the hegemonic power in control of the Mediterranean. The Phoenician city had become an element of strong alterity in the Roman imagination, which made some Latin authors conceive terrifying accounts of its land and nature. Of mortal enemy, Carthage became one of the largest urban centers of the Roman Empire, …