Quote Originally Posted by tsyed
I remember reading a thread somewhere - probably in the org - that debunked the Roman claim that the Carthiginians sacrificed *live* infants.
You must absolutely look into the latest archaeological research on this issue, for I have seen claims on various scholarly websites that recent archaeological finds and conclusions do support the infanticide thesis. An interesting aspect of this propaganda theme of course being that the Romans themselves indulged in similar practices not too long before this episode.
I'm doing this research for a propaganda history course at my university.
Excellent choice, Brother Tsyed! The oft-heard suggestion that war propaganda is a modern disease tied in with democratic politics and mass media seems nonsense to me. I have no doubt that the early modern propagadandists (those involved with the religious wars of the seventeenth century) actually took their cue from Antiquity. It couldn't hurt your essay if you kept the anti-Spanish and anti-Catholic 'Black Legend' theme of seventeenth century in the back of your mind; there may be interesting parallels.

May I be so bold as so suggest you post your finished essay, or the gist of it, in the Monastery? I would be delighted!