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The Story of Carthage Isn’t Necessarily What the Romans Committed to History

A new book by historian and archaeologist Eve MacDonald paints a more complete portrait of the once-great African society ...
Killeen Daily Herald

Carthage Book Club Annual Christmas Tour of Homes This Sunday, Dec. 7

The Carthage Book Club’s annual Christmas Tour of Homes will be held Sunday, December 7 from 1:30 p.m. until 4:00 p.m. Five beautiful homes will be featured on the tour this year, those of Lee and ...
Publishers Weekly

Carthage: A New History of an Ancient Empire

This illuminating debut chronicle from historian MacDonald aims to tell the story of Carthage free from the “othering” propaganda spread by its rivals and eventual annihilators, the Romans. The author ...
The New Criterion

Flaubert in Carthage

Chapter thirteen of Gustave Flaubert’s North African fever-dream novel Salammbô is titled “Moloch.” The book, a strange reverie about a priestess of ancient Carthage, isn’t the type of exoticism we ...
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Book Review: Rome Versus Carthage: The War at Sea

Barnsley, Eng.: Pen & Sword / Philadelphia: Casemate, 2024. Pp. x, 225+. Illus., maps, gloss, notes, biblio., index. £14.99/$24.95 paper. ISBN:1399078623 The ...
Killeen Daily Herald

Carthage Book Club presents donation to Light Up the Esquire

The newest renovation to the Esquire Theatre in Carthage is the installation of chandeliers to be hung from the auditoriums ceiling. And to help with the project, the Carthage Book Club made a ...