Carthage must be destroyed : the rise and fall of an ancient civilization / Richard Miles.

The 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 utte...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Miles, Richard, 1969-
Language:English
Published: New York : Viking, 2011.
Edition:First American edition.
Subjects:
Hannibal, > 247 B.C.-182 B.C.
Carthage (Extinct city) > History.
Rome > History > Republic, 265-30 B.C.
Physical Description:xviii, 520 pages, 16 unnumbered pages of plates : color illustrations, maps ; 24 cm
Format: Book
Contents:
  • Prologue: The last days of Carthage
  • Introduction: Recovering Carthage
  • Feeding the beast : the Phoenicians and the discovery of the West
  • New city : the rise of Carthage
  • The realm of Heracles-Melqart : Greeks and Carthaginians in the central Mediterranean
  • The economy of war : Carthage and Syracuse
  • In the shadow of Alexander the Great : Carthage and Agathocles
  • Carthage and Rome
  • The First Punic War
  • The camp comes to Carthage : the mercenaries' revolt
  • Barcid Spain
  • Don't look back
  • In the footsteps of Heracles
  • The road to nowhere
  • The last age of heroes
  • The desolation of Carthage
  • Punic faith.