CONTENTS. II. AFRICA UNDER THE CÆSARS. B.C. 46-A.D. 96 III. AFRICA UNDER TRAJAN. A.D. 97-117 IV. AFRICA UNDER HADRIAN. A.D. 117-138 V. AFRICA UNDER ANTONINUS PIUS. A.D. 138-161 VI. AFRICA UNDER MARCUS AURElius. A.D. 161-180 VII. AFRICA UNDER SEPTIMIUS SEVERUS. A.D. 193-211 LIST OF ILLUSTRATIONS ✔ THE THREE Temples at Sufetula (Sbeitla), RESTORED MOSAIC IN THE BRITISH MUSEUM, REPRESENTING THE ✓ THE QUADRIFrontal ArcH OF CARACALLA AT THEVESTE TEMPLE OF MINERVA AT THEVESTE, RESTORED VIEW OF BULLA REGIA (HAMMâm DarraDJI). TRAJAN'S BRIdge at Simittu (Chemtou) . MONUMENT AT SCILLIUM (KASSERIN) ARCH OF TRAJAN AT THAMugas (TimegadD), RESTORED . CISTERNS OUTSIDE KAIROUAN Frontispiece AQUEDUCT OF CARTHAGE . IN THE MEDJERDA PLAIN, THE FOUR PRINCIPAL AMPHITHEATRES COMPARED ✔AMPHITHEATRE AT UTHINA (OUDENA) FRONT OF A MARBLE CIPPUS IN THE MUSEUM AT PHILIPPE- MOSAIC SLAB IN THE MUSEUM AT CONSTANTINE (BYZANTINE MAPS NORTH AFRICA. NORTH AFRICA AT THE CLOSE OF THE THIRD CENTURY . To face p. 4 ROMAN AFRICA CHAPTER I CARTHAGE AND ROME Errata Page 10, line 16, for historian read historians ,, 212, last line but one, for Julia Domna read Bassianus watcning each other's movements across the sea with jealousy and dismay. Success to the Romans on the first encounter on land mattered little to a maritime people like the Carthaginians, whose fleets were to be found in every port and inlet of the Mediterranean, and who reigned supreme as the one commercial people of the known world. The career of these ancient rulers of North Africa, illustrious from their spirit of adventure, unflagging energy, and wondrous commerce, is a chapter of romance. Hemmed in originally between mountain and sea on the Syrian coast, a little colony of Phoenicians spread itself in a comparatively short period along the whole seaboard of the Mediterranean; then passing the Pillars of Hercules it reached Sierra Leone in the south, eastward it touched the coast of Malabar, and northward skirted the inhospitable shores of the German Ocean. It seems strange that these Canaanites or Phoenicians, the scorn of Israel, and the people against whom Joshua bent all his powers, should have enjoyed such an B LIST OF ILLUSTRATIONS THE THREE Temples at Sufetula (SbeiTLA), RESTORED VIEW OF UTICA (BOU CHATER) MOSAIC IN THE BRITISH MUSEUM, REPRESENTING THE TOMBS OF NUMIDIAN KIngs, restored ▾ PLAN OF BASILICA AT THEVESTE (TEBESSA). ✓ THE QUADRIFRONTAL ARCH OF CARACALLA AT THEVESTE Temple of Minerva at Theveste, reSTORED Frontispiece To face p. 22 THE FOUR PRINCIPAL AMPHITHEATRES COMPARED ✔AMPHITHEATRE AT UTHINA (OUDENA) FRONT OF A MARBLE CIPPUS IN THE MUSEUM AT PHILIPPE- ✓ MOSAIC SLAB IN THE Museum at Constantine (BYZANTINE PERIOD) ✓ NORTH AFRICA AT THE Close of thE THIRD CENTURY. At end |