Description:
A Waterstones UK Best Book of 2025
A landmark new history of ancient Rome's most famous rival--home of Hannibal, jewel of North Africa, and foundational power of the western Mediterranean.
Brief description: Eve MacDonald is an ancient historian, archaeologist, and senior lecturer in ancient history at Cardiff University. One of the world's foremost experts on the history and material culture of Carthage, North Africa, and the Middle East, she is the author of Hannibal. When not teaching in Cardiff, she lives in London.
Review Quotes: [I]lluminating. . . . [Eve MacDonald] cannily contemplates the effect the defeat of Carthage had on the West's future attitudes toward colonization. The result is a thorough, up-to-date account of the little-regarded but once mighty civilization.-- "Publishers Weekly"