643. Rome’s Greatest Enemy: Carthage Destroyed (Part 4)

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The episode opens with a passage from the Aeneid translated by Robert Fagles, describing the fall of Troy as recounted by Aeneas to Dido, and later discusses Dido's curse as the mythological origin of the enmity between Rome and Carthage.

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Mentioned as the source of the false claim that the Romans sowed the ruins of Carthage with salt, described as 'a metaphorical flourish in the Cambridge Ancient History which came out in the 1920s' that spread like wildfire despite having no basis in ancient sources.