Dr. Lynn Rose, CGDS Director of Disability Studies, has been notified that her translation and commentary, "Anonymous, On Carthage (744)" has been published by Jacoby Online. This is the second edition of Brill's New Jacoby Part III, edited by Ian Worthington. (Brill: Leiden. http://dx.doi.org/10.1163/1873-5363_bnj2_a744). This is a translation into English from Ancient Greek, Latin, and other languages of a second-century BC historian whose work is fragmentary and whose name is lost. It is also a commentary on the historical context and historiography of the piece. An excerpt from the commentary follows: “The enmity between Rome and Carthage is played out in terms of epic ‘winning’ and ‘losing,’
and this unapologetic anonymous document does its best to demonstrate thatthe failure of Carthage was inevitable. There were no alternatives;events had to unfold as they did from the moment of Carthage’s founding.” Indeed, the ravages of the Roman destruction of Carthage in 146 BC can still be seen today in the topography. Dr. Lynn’s research usually focuses on disability studies in the Global South, but she occasionally return to her roots as a historian of ancient Greece.
Image description: This is a rectangular panoramic photo of the ancient ruins of a city, past which we see a very blue sea on a blue horizon. On the left in the photo are two ancient columns in the foreground and several additional columns in the far distance. We also see a number of ruined, one-story, arched brick buildings on sand, with a few patches of green foliage. A sand path surrounds the site.