Salammbo (Classics)

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Carthage - By: M. Dowden, 21 Apr 2008
Although this book is callled Salammbo, she doesn't appear in it that much, & her story is just an incidental sideline to the main story. If you have read Flaubert before you will find this book somewhat different. If you like a bog standard historical novel you may find this tale a bit too exotic.

Salammbo is set in the second century BC. Carthage won't pay its mercenaries after the Punic Wars, & thus starts the Mercenary War. What this book shows is the horrors of war, & man's inhumanity to man. Prisoners of war are crucified or trampled underfoot by elephants amongst other indignities. Carthage is under siege at one stage & the inhabitants practice human sacrifice to appease the gods. The mercenaries that see this look on in shocked dismay, only for some of them to later carry out cannibalism.

This book is bloody & gory, & the story will keep you absorbed. It would make an excellent movie, but once again it won't be a book for everyones tastes.

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