Salah

The kicking of Punic derriere seems to have become a Scipio family tradition. However, the great Scipio Aemilianus was in fact an adoptee; he had rode with his father, an Aemilius Paulus, at Pydna in 168 BCE.

The Third Punic War doesn't get much press. Of course the First War was full of bloody naval engagements, and the Second War saw some of the most dramatic and exotic land battles of Antiquity. In contrast, the Third Punic War (149-146 BCE) consisted of little more than Aemilianus' siege of Carthage - which concluded in upwards of 50,000 people being sold into slavery, and the city destroyed.

However you may feel about the Phoenician city of Qart Hadasht, it was a brutal and tragic demise for one of Antiquity's greatest cities, and a proud nation of sea-farers.

Salah

If the 'Similar Threads' list is anything to go by, I am the first to start a thread about the Third Punic War in Historumic history. Case in point!

Isoroku295

well it doesn't get much press because, as my favorite book on ancients battles says, It was a "sad epilogue to an already epic story"

Delenda est Roma

It was an epic fight. I've studied it but yes a war of overwhelming power versus a small and already beaten nation.

King Caesar I

Not as epic as first two Punic Wars but no less interesting to say the least. A beaten and bloodied city finally taken out by its long-time nemesis.

Delenda est Roma

The Carthaginians actually managed to kill 17,000 Romans and win a few battles. It tool a long time to.

Isoroku295

only 17,000? exactly. Rome lost 17,000 on a good day in the previous two wars.

Delenda est Roma

Thats a quite good number as its only dead. Plus it was versus pretty much only Carthage this time

Isoroku295

a very excellently walled, and likely fanatically defended, city.

Now all I'm saying is that compared to the past two wars, this one was pretty modest, even if it was smaller. It's just too far eclipsed to get much attention

Delenda est Roma

Yeah, but it was a mighty good fight.