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

The struggle to the death between Carthage and Rome was one of the defining dramas of the ancient world. By its end, the last great threat to Roman supremacy was on more, fulfilling Cato the Elder's demand that "Carthage must be destroyed." Drawing on a wealth of new archaeological research, Richard Miles brings to life this lost empire, its origins among the Phoenician settlements of Lebanon to its apotheosis as the greatest sea power in the Mediterranean - a power that, once targeted by Rome, not even Hannibal's military genius could save. Carthage Must Be Destroyed is a major work of history that reintroduces readers to a lost and glorious civilization.