Did Carthage really sacrifice babies, or is that just Roman propaganda?
Did Carthage really sacrifice babies, or is that just Roman propaganda?
Henry Garcia
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Chase Brooks
They probably did on rare occasions. Their cousins back in the Levant had the same practices.
The Romans can't really claim any moral high ground though.
>We only kill babies and rape their mothers and then sell them into slavery, we don't SACRIFICE them
Eli Brown
Possibly, and very likely near the end of the Punic wars. After all, the Romans did it too in times of extreme crisis.
Angel Taylor
>The Romans can't really claim any moral high ground though.
This, antiquity was pretty fucked up overall
Kevin Brown
Wasn't infanticide a normal practice in Rome?
Zachary Ward
Sure, but not for religious reasons.
Austin Peterson
Infanticide is a normal human practice in general, especially in antiquity.
Thomas Edwards
The romans did have human sacrifices as late as a century before the punic wars (then they banned it, but it didn't abruptly stop just like that), so it wouldn't be strange at all if contemporary cultures did the same.
Noah Morgan
Roman propaganda, the tophets mostly were covered by the bones of unborn children, not sacrified babies.
Fun fact: there are more tophets in Sardinia than in the rest of the Mediterranean.
Tyler Turner
Actually scratch that, the law banning it came in 97BC, it just became infrequent around the 3rd century BC.
Ryder Diaz
>believing the eternal Italian
Jordan Cook
Religious reasons are just cultural or practical reasons given a religious meaning.
Brayden Jones
Only in times of crisis. This was actually thought to be Roman propaganda for many years until a burial mound discovered fairly recently proved it true.
Justin Peterson
What burial mound?
Jordan Wilson
Tophets are known since centuries ago by archeologists, there are many of them near where I live too (Sardinia).
It's not a recent discovery.
Also I've read that most of those bones belonged to unborn children.
Levi Lewis
So the Carthaginians used abortion as sacrifice?
Christopher Cruz
>Carthaginian Iberia
>246 BC
That map is bad and you should feel bad.
Lincoln Stewart
Infanticide was pretty common place in many countries actually as a form of post-birth abortion. That changed once Abrahamic religions started popping up which strongly condemn that practice. In countries that didn't have much Abrahamic influence (China, parts of India etc.) infanticide was still practiced semi-regularly, especially among the poorest populace.
Mason Scott
>implying morality applies to the outgroup
Jack Nguyen
>Carthage
>Empire
It was a republic by then, you silly map.
Oh sorry, a "Shofetim"
Kevin Butler
>carthaginian """""empire"""""
??
????
Jaxson Cox
They probably did.
They also had a great library, an amazing economy even after losing two massive wars against Rome and a political system which even Aristotle found praiseworthy.
They weren't that bad. ;_;
Jace Sullivan
>They weren't that bad. ;_;
Go to bed Hannibal.
Angel Martinez
Historically, most of the "sacrifices" where stillborns and other children that didn't survive birth. However when Rome was beating on Carthage's doors and shit had completely hit the fan they took to sacrificing living babies again because their situation was just that bad.
Hudson Cooper
Roman writers exaggerated and made up shit all the time. It was a tradition among historians throughout antiquity since standards of objectivity weren't a thing.