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Книга The Libyan's War Cahir Dolan

The Libyan's War

Mathos and the Truceless Fury of Carthage

Автор: Cahir Dolan
Език: Английски език
Корици: С меки корици
Издател: SilverBack
Наличност: Очаква се зареждане
Издание 23. 07. 2026
28.94 € 56.61 лв
The Libyan's War: Mathos and the Truceless Fury of Carthage In 241 BC, a bankrupt Carthage tried to...

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Автор
Cahir Dolan
Език
Английски език
Корици
Книга - С меки корици
Издадена
2026
страници
568
EAN
9798235758032
Enbook ID
53269812
Издател
SilverBack
Теглоt
651
Размери
140 x 216 x 32

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The Libyan's War: Mathos and the Truceless Fury of Carthage

In 241 BC, a bankrupt Carthage tried to stiff twenty thousand veteran soldiers out of their wages, and nearly paid with its life. This is the story of Mathos, the Libyan officer who turned a mercenary pay dispute into a three-year war that came within a hair's breadth of destroying one of the ancient Mediterranean's great powers. Drawing on Polybius, Diodorus, and the rebellion's own surviving coinage, this book recovers a man the ancient sources tried hard to erase: a career soldier who built a functioning rival state at Tunis, struck his own silver shekels, mobilized seventy thousand volunteers, and twice brought Carthage to the edge of annihilation, once through Hamilcar Barca's desperate generalship, once through his own. It follows the war's descent into mutual atrocity, the crucifixions before Tunis's walls, and Mathos's final capture and death at the hands of a Carthaginian mob, before tracing the war's astonishing afterlife: the Barcid military reforms that produced Hannibal's army, and Gustave Flaubert's transformation of Mathos into the doomed hero of Salammbô. A rigorously researched, richly told account of history's most consequential forgotten war.