Thanks to Sarah Bond on Bsky, I’m staring my day reading this fabulous open access article.
Machado, Dominic, and Michael J. Taylor. “The Carthaginian Masters: Settler Colonialism and Racecraft in Ancient North Africa.” Arethusa 59, no. 2 (2026): 151-178. https://dx.doi.org/10.1353/are.2026.a992490.
Machado and Taylor are a dream team. Both scholars I deeply admire and on a topic I have long attempted to teach but never considered publishing. Now I have an article to set students.
My thinking on this goes back to my interest in the Mercenary War. You can read something of my published work on the topic in one of my first forays in the capital T theory.
The settler colonialism dimension hit home as I was organizing and preparing to participate in a teach in at the very start of the Arab Spring.
I checked my files and I never seem to have scripted this talk but the slides exist.
This reminds me now looking at it about of how I teach the Sicilian Slave Revolts. Interesting. Clearly I’ve been working on some ideas and approaches without quite realizing the continuities in my thinking.
Here are my teaching materials for a unit called “Facing Carthage” which is part of my Roman Republican History Class.
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Of particular interest to those interested in the topics addressed by Machado and Taylor may be my selections of Trogus on Carthage in translation with specific portions emphasized:
As well as the Account of Hanno’s Voyage
I find these documents spark great classroom conversation. Somewhere on youtube but probably set to private is a recording of my teaching this stuff. That could be dug out if needed at any point. I try to not watch recordings of myself but I am an archival packrat intent on leaving myself breadcrumbs of my past work artifacts.
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