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![]() ![]() ![]() However, as an archaeologist, I think the book would have been even better had he begun with the archaeology and then added in the history as an added extra. In this I am being unfair: the author knows his archaeology, has directed excavations in Carthage and Rome, and most of the archaeology is there in the book. Was this perhaps foisted on him by his publishers? My second complaint is that the book is not archaeological enough. I have two criticisms: the first is his title, echoing the slogan that Scipio hammered into the Senate at Rome. The author, Richard Miles, a Classicist at Trinity Hall Cambridge, has now written what is the standard book on the subject in the English language. It starts in Phoenicia and describes the great expansion of the Phoenicians along the north coast of Africa, the foundation of Carthage and its eventual destruction. This is an excellent account of the rise and fall of a great ancient civilisation. ![]()
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