MASINISSA

or Massinissaboth: măsĭnĭsˈə, c.238–148 b.c., king of Numidia. He succeeded (c.207 b.c.) his father as king of E Numidia. Brought up in Carthage, he fought in a Carthaginian campaign in Spain in the Second Punic War (see Punic Wars) but eventually went over (c.206) to the Roman side. After defeating his old rival Syphax, king of W Numidia, he joined Scipio Africanus Major and led his cavalry in a decisive charge at the battle of Zama (202), which ended the war. Rome awarded him the Punic territory E of Carthage. His tragic relationship with Sophonisba at the end of the Second Punic War has been the subject of numerous literary interpretations. During his long reign he extended his power and converted his land of turbulent tribespeople into a formidable and prosperous kingdom. He goaded Carthage into resisting Numidian encroachments; the resistance furnished Rome with a pretext for beginning the Third Punic War.

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books on: Masinissa  - 141 results

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Dictionary of World Biography: The Ancient World - Vol. 1
Book by Frank N. Magill; Fitzroy Dearborn, 1998
Subjects: World History
sion. Scipio linked up with Masinissa at Zama, where the climactic battle occurred. Masinissa and his cavalry were stationed on Scipios...participation in the victory, Rome made Masinissa king of Numidia, a position that had never...
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Rome in Africa
Book by Susan Raven; Routledge, 1993
Subjects: Africa, North--History--To 647, Romans--Africa, North
...agriculture two hundred years earlier. Masinissa built himself a new palace at his capital...farmlands still belonged to Carthage. Masinissa had his eye on them: was he an ally...deaf ear to the complaints of Carthage. Masinissa announced that Africa belonged to the...
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Carthage
Book by B. H. Warmington; Frederick A. Praeger, 1960
Subjects: Carthage (Extinct city)--History
...territory when parts were claimed by Masinissa by appeal to Rome and by outdoing the...informed of the precise chronology of Masinissa's encroachments but the information...people could have determined whether Masinissa's claim was justified, either decided...
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Memorable Deeds and Sayings: One Thousand Tales from Ancient Rome
Book by Henry John Walker, Valerius Maximus; Hackett, 2004
Subjects: Anecdotes--Early Works To 1800, Didactic Literature, Latin--Translations Into English, Exempla--Translations Into English, Rome--Civilization--Early Works To 1800, Rome--Social Life And Customs--Early Works To 1800
...guarantee the safety of his own kingdom, Masinissa was completely willing to hand over a...Aemilianus was the grandson of Africanus, and Masinissa gave more consideration to the favor...troops back to him in Spain .79 When Masinissa was growing old, he left the great wealth...
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Great Captains of Antiquity
Book by Richard A. Gabriel; Greenwood Press, 2001
...Numidian nobleman who was the nephew of Masinissa, the great Numidian chieftain and exquisite...Spain, he had opened negotiations with Masinissa, urging him to change sides. While Masinissa had been away at war, political changes...
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The Sands of Rhyme: Thackeray and Abd al Qadir
Journal article by Hédi Abdel-Jaouad; Research in African Literatures, Vol. 30, 1999
Subjects: Africa--History, African Fiction--History And Criticism, African Literature--History And Criticism, African Poetry--History And Criticism, Postcolonialism--Africa
...identity, Berber and Arab. On the Berber side, in addition to Jugurtha, Kateb invokes other legendary Numidians such as King Masinissa and the Chieftess Kahena. Through the mythical ancestor Keblout, but also through the epic of Bani Hallil and the figure...
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Modern Metamorphoses and the Primal Sublime: the Southern/caribbean Poetry of Yusef Komunyakaa and Derek Walcott
Journal article by Daniel Cross Turner; Southern Quarterly, Vol. 48, 2011
Subjects: Poetry
...Afro-Caribbean, or African American past, incorporating an immense scope of historical figures, from the Numidian King Masinissa to Benedict the Moor to Phillis Wheatley to John Gabriel Stedman to Claudio Brindis de Salas to Thomas McKeller to Edmonia...
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Deconstructing the Classical Age: Africa and the Unity of the Mediterranean World
Journal article by Maghan Keita; The Journal of Negro History, Vol. 79, 1994
Subjects: African literature--History, Classical literature--Social aspects, Racism--Analysis
...various peoples of North Africa, including the Carthaginians, it should also be noted that those linkages were underscored by Masinissa, king of Numidia, in his attempt to claim for himself a Libyan genealogy. Picard, Life, 280. 39 Picard, Daily Life...
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Books Received
Journal article; Renaissance Quarterly, Vol. 60, 2007
...le mythe de Diane et lItalie"; Jean-Frederic Chevalier, "Tite-Live et la tragedie de la Renaissance: lheroisme de Masinissa"; Laurence Boulegue, "LItalie selon Gabriel Naude dans son edition des Opuscula moralia et politica dAgostino Nifo (1645...
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Remaking Myth in Yusef Komunyakaa's Talking Dirty to the Gods, Taboo, and Gilgamesh: An Interview
Journal article by Daniel Cross Turner; The Mississippi Quarterly, Vol. 62, 2009
Subjects: Authors, Komunyakaa, Yusef, Writers
...African American past. The volume embodies an immense scope of historical figures, from Benedict the Moor to the Numidian King Masinissa to Phillis Wheatley to Thomas Jefferson and Sally Hemings to Aphra Behn to Amasa Delano to Louis Armstrong. Gilgamesh: A...


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Tunisia: "a Country That Works"
Magazine article by Richard H. Curtiss; The Washington Report on Middle East Affairs, Vol. XV, December 1996
Subjects: Ancient civilizations, History, Tunisia
...landed in Africa in 204 where they allied themselves with Masinissa, a Berber ruler who had fought on the side of the Carthaginians...outside the region. King Jugurtha of Numidia, a grandson of Masinissa, revolted against Roman rule while civil war was raging in...
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Saddam: Latter-Day Jugurtha?
Magazine article by Steve Bonta; The New American, Vol. 20, January 12, 2004
...civil war and Caesarism about a century later. Jugurtha was the adopted son of the Numidian king Micipsa, whose father, Masinissa, had been an ally of Rome in the protracted struggle with the Carthaginians. When Jugurtha got embroiled in a dynastic struggle...


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encyclopedia articles on: Masinissa  - 8 results

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Masinissa
Encyclopedia article; The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition, 2009
MASINISSA or Massinissa both: masinis , c.238 148 b.c., king of Numidia. He succeeded (c.207 b.c.) his father as king of E...
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Numidia
Encyclopedia article; The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition, 2009
...modern Algeria . It was part of the Carthaginian empire until Masinissa , ruler of E Numidia, allied himself (c.206 b.c...Roman victory over Carthage led to peace in 201 b.c., Masinissa was awarded rule of all Numidia. This began Numidias most...
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Sophonisba
Encyclopedia article; The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition, 2009
...Carthaginian wife of Syphax of Numidia, who after the marriage fought for Carthage. When he was defeated (203 b.c.) by Masinissa and the Romans, Sophonisba took poison. This tragedy was the subject of plays by Alfieri, Trissino, Corneille, James...
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Punic Wars
Encyclopedia article; The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition, 2009
...destruction of Carthage. Charging Carthage with a technical breach of treaty in resisting the encroachment of the Numidian king Masinissa (a Roman ally), Rome declared war and blockaded the city. Carthage never surrendered. The younger Scipio ( Scipio Africanus...
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Algeria
Encyclopedia article; The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition, 2009
...divided into two kingdoms, both of which were strongly influenced by Carthage. The kingdoms of Numidia were united by King Masinissa (c.238 149 b.c.). In 146 b.c., Rome destroyed Carthage, and by 106 b.c., after defeating King Jugurtha of...
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