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Chesterton decided to take a second look at the Punic Wars from the perspective of divine providence. Fast forward to the early decades of the twentieth century, when a British essayist, poet, novelist, critic, and Christian apologist named G.K. In the end, Rome defeated and utterly destroyed Carthage (146 BC), but she never forgot how close she had come to being destroyed herself by Hannibal in the closing decade of the third century BC. Carthage was the African outpost of Phoenicia’s trading empire. Punis is how the Romans pronounced Phoenicia (there is no “ph” in Latin, which is why they called the land of the Philistines, Palestine), the old foes of Israel whose capital cities were at Tyre and Sidon in the land we now call Lebanon. But who exactly were the Carthaginians? The answer to that is revealed in the name the Romans gave to the three long wars they fought with Carthage: the Punic Wars. No love, she pledges defiantly, will ever exist between their peoples rather, when the time is ripe, an avenger will rise up out of her bones to exact vengeance.įor the Romans, that vengeance fell a thousand years later when the Roman Republic went to war with the Carthaginian Empire, and Rome herself was nearly destroyed by Dido’s avenger, Hannibal. Before dying, however, she levels a terrifying curse on Aeneas and his descendants. Though he must leave, the overly stoic Aeneas botches the breakup, and, as his ship sails off, Dido builds a great pyre and immolates herself on it. The widowed Aeneas soon falls in love with the queen of the newly-founded city of Carthage, the widowed Dido, and forsakes his duty ( pietas in Latin) to remain with her.īut the gods have other plans for Aeneas, and so Jupiter sends Mercury to Carthage to order the wayward Trojan to leave at once and resume his voyage to Italy. Though Aeneas has been commissioned by the gods to found a new Troy in Italy, a city destined to become the center of a world empire that will bring universal peace and law, he is weary of his journey. In the opening Book of the Aeneid, Virgil’s reluctant hero washes ashore on the North African city of Carthage. “Dido: The Tragedy of a Woman” retells the tragic tale of the “Aeneid,” but with some dramatic plot twists that allow it to function both as a timeless meditation on the universal issues of natural law, idolatry, and passion gone awry, and a modern commentary on relativism, utilitarianism, and abortion. Should he wrest control of the secret of the Boar’s Tusk from the two teens, the universe will fall under Zuron’s sway-with unspeakable results.Playwright David Lane has graced the Christian community with a formal, blank-verse play that takes up the war of gods and demons.

To serve his lord, the dark god Zuron, Mochcom will gladly murder again. Local crazy LeRoy Nabal, better known to the gods as Lord Mochcom, has killed for the golden key before.

There the two will discover Jeannie’s golden key, once thought to be a mere family heirloom, has the power to unlock secrets capable of transcending time and space-and possibly solve the mystery of death itself.Īs Danny and Jeannie explore their growing power and love for each other, another force is in motion.

#WAR OF THE GODS BOOK FREE#

Their longing to break free from their dirt-poor existence led to a half-serious hunt for pirate treasure in Jeannie’s Golden Key, plunging them into a war for control of the universe between primordial gods-a war that can only be won with the teenagers’ help.įollowing a tangled trail of riddles and clues, Danny and Jeannie stumble into a secret buried within the Boar’s Tusk, an ancient volcanic formation. Danny Roberts and Jeannie LoneTree live in an impoverished coal camp in Wyoming’s Scarlet Desert.

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