The Perception of Carthage in Classical Greek Historiography

Journal article (Acta Classica 37, 1994, pp. 1–14) examining how Carthage was constructed as an object of Greek historical thought, from Herodotus and the Sicilian-Greek tradition through Polybius, and how the resulting frame was inherited by Latin historiography. Barceló argues that the "Carthage" of the surviving sources is substantially a Greek conceptual artifact, with implications for any modern reconstruction that takes the literary tradition at face value. Important for thinking about the source-bias problem this encyclopedia has to navigate.