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

Отличная книга! Честная (и явно удачная!) попытка взглянуть на историю древнего Карфагена без влияния клише и стереотипов, созданных древнеримскими пропагандистами. Я не мог удержаться от восхищения. Майлзу не нужно было проводить прямые параллели, и так все очевидно. Но он их провел: "In recent years the ongoing crisis in Iraq has also afforded political commentators many opportunities to equate the situation in that unfortunate land with what had befallen Carthage. The following words by the American sociologist and historian Franz Schurmann are typical of the kind of emotive comparisons that have been drawn: Two thousand years ago the Roman statesman Cato the Elder kept crying out, ‘Delenda est Carthago’–Carthage must be destroyed! To Cato it was clear either Rome or Carthage but not…