Carthage: A New History - Eve MacDonald

‘This is not only history reclaimed, this is history at its best!’ Professor Lloyd Llewellyn-Jones, author of the Age of the Great Kings Carthage was a power that dominated the western Mediterranean for almost six centuries before its fall to Rome. The history of the realm and its Carthaginians was subsumed by their conquerors and, along the way, the story of the real Carthage was lost. An ancient North African kingdom, Carthage was the home of Hannibal and of Dido, of war elephants and enormous