His style is at all times enjoyable, and his arguments well presented. Miles begins with the Phoenicians, the people who founded Carthage, and goes on from there. It's far from that: this is a better written, easier to follow, more rounded book than Lancel's. One might think that part of the reason for this is that Carthage Must Be Destroyed did not need to be translated (inevitably, there were some places where Lancel's text became unwieldy). This, an outstanding contribution to the patchy knowledge we have of Carthage, has just been eclipsed. Until the publication of this excellent book, the preeminent text about Carthage was the 1995 volume Carthage: A History by the French historian Serge Lancel.
0 Comments
Leave a Reply. |