Carthage Must Be Destroyed The Rise and Fall of an Ancient Civilization

by Miles, Richard

• ISBN13: 9780670022663
• ISBN10: 0670022667
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 2011-07-21
• Publisher: Viking Adult

Summary

An epic history of a doomed civilization and a lost empire. The devastating struggle to the death between the Carthaginians and the Romans was one of the defining dramas of the ancient world. In an epic series of land and sea battles, both sides came close to victory before the Carthaginians finally succumbed and their capital city, history, and culture were almost utterly erased. Drawing on a wealth of new archaeological research, Richard Miles vividly brings to life this lost empire-from its origins among the Phoenician settlements of Lebanon to its apotheosis as the greatest seapower in the Mediterranean. And at the heart of the history of Carthage lies the extraordinary figure of Hannibal-the scourge of Rome and one of the greatest military leaders, but a man who also unwittingly led his people to catastrophe. The first full-scale history of Carthage in decades, Carthage Must Be Destroyedreintroduces modern readers to the larger-than-life historical players and the ancient glory of this almost forgotten civilization.

Table of Contents

List of Illustrations	p. ix
List of Maps	p. xii
Chronology	p. xiii
Acknowledgements	p. xviii
Prologue: The Last Days of Carthage	p. 1
Introduction: Recovering Carthage	p. 6
Feeding the Beast: The Phoenicians and the Discovery of the West	p. 24
New City: The Rise of Carthage	p. 58
The Realm of Heracles-Melqart: Greeks and Carthaginians in the Central Mediterranean	p. 96
The Economy of War: Carthage and Syracuse	p. 112
In the Shadow of Alexander the Great: Carthage and Agathocles	p. 139
Carthage and Rome	p. 157
The First Punic War	p. 177
The Camp Comes to Carthage: The Mercenaries' Revolt	p. 200
Barcid Spain	p. 218
Don't Look Back	p. 235
In the Footsteps of Heracles	p. 256
The Road to Nowhere	p. 283
The Last Age of Heroes	p. 308
The Desolation of Carthage	p. 324
Punic Faith	p. 352
Notes	p. 374
Bibliography	p. 452
Index	p. 487
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