naval battle (256 BC)
economy
6th century crisis
effect of First Punic War on Carthage
effect of loss of Sardinia
effect of wars in Sicily on
effect of wealth of Spain on recovery
loan from Egypt
recovery from Second Punic War
rural
egersis , festival of Melqart
in Carthage
in Gades
Greek interpretation
Egypt
boat-building
magic symbols
relations with Tyre
trade
El, Phoenician god
elephants
at Acragas
on Barcid coins
at battle of Zama
captured by Roman army
crossing of Alps
crossing of Rhône
forest species
in Hannibal’s army
at Panormus
Pyrrhus’ use of
used to trample rebel mercenaries
Xanthippus’ use of
Elissa (Elisshat) of Tyre compared with Dido
and myth of foundation of Carthage
see also Dido
elite
and control over armies
merchants
and rise of popular power
see also Council of Elders
Elymian people, Sicily
emporia
Carthaginian
Phoenician
Enna, Sicily
Ennius, Quintus
Annales
and Vergil’s Aeneid
Entella, Sicily, bronze tablets
ephebes (statues)
Ephorus, Athenian scholar
epic poetry, Roman
Epicydes, Syracusan officer in Hannibal’s army
epigraphy see inscriptions
Epirus (Albania)
Molossian troops
see also Pyrrhus
Erymanthian boar, legend of
Erythia, mythical island
Erythrae, Greek island
Eryx, king in Sicily
Eryx, Sicily
Aphrodite/Astarte
capture by Pyrrhus
Carthaginian attempt to recapture (244 BC)
Eshmoun, god
and Greek god Aesculapius
Etruria, Italy
alliance with Carthage
and Heracles
trade with
under Roman control
Etruscan language, on Pyrgi Tablets
Etruscans
adoption of Odysseus
trade networks
Euboea, island
pottery
settlement of Ischia
trade
Eudoxius of Cnidus, Greek author
euhemerism (gods as deified humans)
Euhemerus, Greek philosopher
Euhesperides, Greek settlement
Eumenes, king of Pergamum
Evander, mythical king
evocatio , Roman religious ritual
exploration
Carthaginian
Greek
Fabii, Roman senatorial family
Fabius Maximus, Quintus ( Cunctator ), as autocrat
ambush in Vulturnus valley
consulships
and removal of temple of Hercules to Capitol and Scipio statue of Heracles on Capitol
Fabius Pictor, Quintus, Roman senator
Annales
Fabius, Roman envoy to Carthage
faience, Phoenician
famine, Carthage (256–255 BC)
Fauna, wife of Faunus
Faunus, mythical king
Fides , temple to
fides , Roman virtue
and Roman faithlessness
fides Punica (Roman idiom of faithlessness)
fire
at end of siege
regenerative powers of ( egersis )
First Punic War (264–241 BC)
battle of Mylae
build-up to
Carthaginian strategy in Sicily
defeat of Carthage
effect on economy
Roman campaign in North Africa (256–255 BC)
Sicily
terms of peace treaty
fish salting, Morocco
Flaminius Nepos, Gaius, consul (217)
Flaminius, Titus Quinctius, Roman general
Flaubert, Gustave, Salammbô
Flavius Hannibalianus
food
imports
livestock
from Sardinia
variety, from hinterlands
wild birds
Fortuna, Roman goddess
foundation myths
Elissa
Heracles and
Rome
settlement of Azoros and Carchedon
synchronicity of foundation of Rome and Carthage
France
19th-century see also Gaul
Franko, George
Fronda, Michael
Frusino, Italy, hermaphrodite child born
Fulvius Centumalus, Gnaeus, Roman pro-consul
Fulvius Flaccus, Quintus, censor (174/173)
Fulvius Flaccus, Quintus, Roman general
furniture, inlays for
Gabon
Gades, Tyrian colony
Barcid mints
Carthage and
Carthaginian retreat to
Hannibal at
Heracles at
public buildings
surrender to Rome (206)
temple of Melqart
Gaius Claudius, Roman tribune
Gammarth, villa estate
garum (fish sauce)
Gades
Kerkouane
Morocco
Gaul (France)
Hannibal in see also Cisalpine Gaul
Gauls
Celts in Alpine regions
equated with Hyperboreans
as mercenaries
sack of Rome (387 BC)
Gela, Sicily, Greek city
Gelon, ruler of Syracuse
and battle of Himera
death of
settlement with Carthage
Geminus, Gnaeus Servilius, consul (217)
Genna Maria, Sicily, shrine of Demeter
Geryon, ogre
earliest