I hadn’t thought about that.
“The Punics settled Carthage in – oh – about 814 B.C. and built it into a major regional power. It was called Qart-ḥadašt at the time, but later renamed Carthage. They were a seafaring people, much like the Greeks who roamed the Middle Sea in search of new land and precious trading resources. They came from Lebanon and, as the story goes, they were led by Dido. Sounds like an important explorer, a man of great power, right?”
I nodded, although I didn’t know anything about Dido.
“Well, it wasn’t a man. Dido, if you can believe the ancient stories, was actually Elissa, the first queen of Carthage. She was the explorer – a woman was the founder of the great city of Carthage.”
Vito chuckled at this.
“Remember the Earth Mother and all her offspring?”
I didn’t
