Carthage`s destruction

[Qvintvs]

I heard that after Romans devastated Carthage, they ploughed the place where it once stood 3 times in a roow, and seeded salt there, so nobody would remember about existence of that city. Is it true?


no Romaioktonoi spam please.

[Heilong]

There is no historical documentation stating that Rome salted the ground of Carthage after the Third Punic War. In all actuality; Carthage became a wealthy province of Rome and flourished for hundreds of years.

[Rahwana]

Salting te ground means to deprive the soil from nutrition and kill of floral life, but apparently the ROmans didn't know that what they do is replenish the soil sodium ionic pressure, and in turns, gave them more ability to withdrawn nutrients (that was indirectly coming from the corpses and dead plants), it was not a good things for the ROmans either, as salt was expensive...

~Sonic (ROMA VICTRIX! die Carthaginian scums!)

[MButcher]

If you have access to Jstor there is a wonderful article which explains the origins of the myth, and how it's been taken for granted for so long. It's called To be Taken with a Pinch of Salt: The Destruction of Carthage

If you can't access Jstor then I would happy to email it to you.

[Jebivjetar]

If you have access to Jstor there is a wonderful article which explains the origins of the myth, and how it's been taken for granted for so long. It's called To be Taken with a Pinch of Salt: The Destruction of Carthage

Somewhere i read something similar to that, but anyway i would like to read that article you mentioned. Care to share a link? :)

no Romaioktonoi spam please.

(ROMA VICTRIX! die Carthaginian scums!)

Now isn't that ironic?

[vartan]

Now isn't that ironic?

Only if you unethically juxtapose the two quotes that in reality have two very different sources/authors...then yes, it is ironic.

I'd like to read that article as well. It makes sense in hindsight I suppose, but I had never heard before of the connection between the "pinch of salt" expression and the myth of the salting of Carthage.

[Duguntz]

~Sonic (ROMA VICTRIX! die Carthaginian scums!)

Lol... I'm starting nothing here, but if no romaioktonoi spams are allowed, no barbarophiloi should be neither... I agree with Jebi... how ironic!

now on subject, it is true that a link would be interesting to the article! it pinched my curiosity!

[Ludens]

Lol... I'm starting nothing here, but if no romaioktonoi spams are allowed, no barbarophiloi should be neither...

Yes, let's drop the pro-/anti-Romaioktonoi debate and go back to the matter at hand.

[HunGeneral]

I also say its just a myth, since the Romans wouldn't have been foolish enough to ruin all the soil around carthage - they turned it into one of there breadbeaskets later on and salt was quite valuiable at the time.