PugJesus@lemmy.worldM to Illustrations of history@lemmy.worldEnglish · 3 days agoImaginings of major figures of the Roman Republic in the Second Punic Warlemmy.worldimagemessage-square7fedilinkarrow-up132arrow-down10
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minus-squareTar_AlcaranlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up3·edit-23 days agoI do really love this image. It’s well drawn and very evocative. Cato the Elder really looks a bit young young, he really WAS old. Also I am of the opinion that Carthage must be destroyed.
minus-squarePugJesus@lemmy.worldOPMlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up5·3 days agoDuring the Third Punic War he was old, but he was a paltry 16 years old when the Second Punic War started, and 34 when it ended. Man really hung onto life for another 50 years just to see the remains of a once-powerful city destroyed.
minus-squareTar_AlcaranlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up2·3 days agoAh, I misread it was about the second punic war. The thing that set him off.
I do really love this image. It’s well drawn and very evocative. Cato the Elder really looks a bit young young, he really WAS old. Also I am of the opinion that Carthage must be destroyed.
During the Third Punic War he was old, but he was a paltry 16 years old when the Second Punic War started, and 34 when it ended.
Man really hung onto life for another 50 years just to see the remains of a once-powerful city destroyed.
Ah, I misread it was about the second punic war. The thing that set him off.