Ричард Майлз – лучшие книги

Карфаген… Наследник цивилизации финикийских мореплавателей, основавших множество колоний. Богатейший город на западном средиземноморском побережье Африки, обладающий могучим флотом и боеспособной армией. Торговая держава, господствовавшая в регионе задолго до прихода римлян. И все же «Карфаген должен быть разрушен!» Почему не покорен, не завоеван, а именно стерт с лица земли? По каким причинам существование Карфагена сделалось столь невыносимым для его главного конкурента — молодой Римской республики? На эти и другие вопросы отвечает в своей увлекательной книге историк и археолог Ричард Майлз.

Drawing on a wealth of new research, archaeologist, historian, and master storyteller Richard Miles resurrects the civilization that ancient Rome struggled so mightily to expunge. This monumental work charts the entirety of Carthage's history, from its origins among the Phoenician settlements of Lebanon to its apotheosis as a Mediterranean empire whose epic land-and-sea clash with Rome made a legend of Hannibal and shaped the course of Western history. Carthage Must Be Destroyed reintroduces readers to the ancient glory of a lost people and their generations-long struggle against an implacable enemy.

The story of Carthage is one of the great epics of the Ancient World. And yet, thanks to the ruthlessness and brutality of the Roman destruction of the city under Scipio in 146 BC, we know relatively little about the city: its foundation, its expansion, its way of life, its literature and gods. Carthage has to all intents and purposes been driven to the margins of history. A tale of battles and empire-building, of bitter rivalry and destruction - and a great civilisation whose role in shaping European culture and history has, until now, been largely ignored.

The great epic of the Ancient World comes to life
The story of Carthage is one of the great epics of the Ancient World. And yet, thanks to the ruthlessness and brutality of the Roman destruction of the city under Scipio in 146 BC, we know relatively little about the city: its foundation, its expansion, its way of life, its literature and gods. Carthage has to all intents and purposes been driven to the margins of history. A tale of battles and empire-building, of bitter rivalry and destruction - and a great civilisation whose role in shaping European culture and history has, until now, been largely ignored.