Quote Originally Posted by CirdanDharix
especially the "Third Punic War"--or should we be saying the Punic Genocide?

I'm sorry but there was no such thing like a "Punic Genocide". Only the few people who stayed in Carthage fell victim to the Roman massacre. Carthage was refounded with still major punic population and the other punic towns on the northern african coast weren't even touched. they even kept their autonomie, a switch to roman names only occurs during the 1st century BC to AD, inscriptionas are in punic and latin throughout most of Roman history. Septimius of Lepcis became emperor and his ancestors were senators and they all spoke punic (actually the family only changed their punic name around the time of Augustus as Birley suggests)

So there was hardly a punic genocide

just on a sidenote