Giù dalle mura: da Tiro a Cartagine, visitando altri luoghi.

Abstract

In this exercise of comparison, I examine some cases in which prisoners are thrown from the walls of besieged cities: Tyre, Utica, Hippo, and Carthage. Comparisons are made with ritual actions taken in case of siege, and with executions of convicted and prisoners, in order to observe typological similarities and differences, and to emphasize the specific features of events and circumstances.