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

Wide-ranging modern history that places Carthage in its full Phoenician and Mediterranean context, tracing the cultural construction of "Carthage" as much as the political history. Miles is particularly attentive to how the Roman destruction shaped, and continues to shape, what we know and what we can recover. Strong on Hellenistic-era Carthage and on the religious and ideological dimensions of the conflict with Rome.