Salammbô (Cyclopedia of Literary Places)
At a glance:
- Author: Gustave Flaubert
- First Published: 1862
- Type of Work: Novel
- Type of Plot: Historical
- Time of Work: Third century b.c.e.
- Genres: Long fiction, Historical fiction
- Subjects: Africa or Africans, Love or romance, Suicide, Obsession, Gods or goddesses, Riots, Tragedy, Mercenary soldiers, Greek or Roman times, Armies, Priests, Moon or moons, Feasting or feasts, Temples, Third century
- Locales: Carthage, ancient
Places Discussed
*Carthage. Ancient North African city, whose ruins can now be found in the marshland northeast of Tunis. In classical times Carthage stood on a peninsula (the modern coastline has been much altered by wind-driven sand). It was originally a Phoenician colony founded in the ninth century b.c.e., but it grew to become Rome’s greatest rival, the conflicts between the two imperially ambitious city-states being known as the Punic Wars. The great Carthaginian hero of the first Punic War (264-241 b.c.e.), Hamilcar Barca, is one of the principal characters of...
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