If we consider Carthage as a symbol of dark, gynecocratic, telluric forces — recall, for instance, Dido’s attempt to sway Aeneas from his heroic destiny — then the phrase “Carthago delenda est,” uttered by the last champion of traditional Roman virility, Cato the Elder, becomes more than a mere historical circumstance: it stands as the most powerful mantra of patriarchy.

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