Chapter I.
Carthaginian settlement (Carthage foundation and Western mythology; the city)

After the venture of the city, the annals of Carthage would be abandoned by Romans to Micipsa son of Massinissa, who transmitted to Sallustio and served for his "Jugurthian War"; however, the work remained incomplete and there was no trace of that documents.

Carthage was probably founded as a Phoenician settlement. Elissa -- Dido founded their shelter and became queen, to escape with a group of supporters from her brother Pygmalion, ill-disposed forwards divided the power at Tyre with her. Her mythological story with Aeneas and her other one with Jarbas, King of Massils and Getules, concluded with her suicide. However, that showed what a strong woman she was and how suitable to reign over Carthaginian people. Thereafter, she remained the object of reverence and imitation in the subsequent centuries. Carthage had to know the shoah and the havoc, and so it is difficult to imagine, apart from the strong emotion that wrongs the heart of any visitor, that these places contained the richest and most beautiful port of the ancient times, described by Appian. The
City could have had more than half a million inhabitants.

Chapter II: Carthaginian State (The institutions; the culture; Phoenician-Carthaginian cult)

The Carthaginian regime, which was first monarchical then transformed into republican, did not stop for one moment the course of successes in virtue of the wisdom of the founders. During the last period, the people curtailed the powers of the Senate, composed of the representatives of the noble rich families on the initiative of the Barca family. It is possible that that the same political system was enforced in the other Punic cities.

The little that remains of the culture and Carthaginian art gives evidence to its intrinsic greatness and shows the striking interconnection between Mediterranean peoples.

Chapter III:
Carthaginian economy (Agriculture: cereals, viticulture; olive oil; Industry: extractive and of transformation; craftsmanship; naval docks; services: trading, monetary circulation, tax, salt)

Carthaginians as Phoenician people are rightly famous for being navigators and traders; no other people in comparison to them deserved to be named missionary of civilization, thanks to the device agricultural, forestry and livestock developed by them. At the time of their arriving in North Africa, the Phoenicians found a fertile land, ideal for cereals, viticulture, olive and livestock, but they had the know how of soil conservation. Columella called "father of the economy of the country" Mago, author of an agronomical treatise with at least 28 volumes, written in Punic language, on the basis of previous knowledge and on direct observation.

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