Carthage

“Roman bias colors what we know of Carthage’s beginning, middle, and end… . If the victors wrote the history, Eve MacDonald offers an important corrective in Carthage.” – Max Carter - Wall Street Journal
“Admirably lucid…[Eve MacDonald] has the merit of brevity and a no-nonsense command of her material.” – Pratinav Anil - The Times (UK)
“Not so much revisionist as expansionist…[Eve MacDonald] succeeds in creating a thickly layered portrait…Enjoyable and readily digestible.” – Daisy Dunn - The Telegraph
“Full of fresh insights, Carthage is a brilliant and accessible recentering of this ancient civilization and its dynamic contributions to the legacy of the Western world.” – Peggy Kurkowski - Shelf Awareness
”[I]lluminating… . [Eve MacDonald] cannily contemplates the effect the defeat of Carthage had on the West’s future attitudes toward colonization. The result is a thorough, up-to-date account of the little-regarded but once mighty civilization.” – Publishers Weekly
“Epic…More than two millennia after its destruction, Carthage now has its Iliad.” – Martyn Rady, author of The Habsburgs
“An important and much-needed reorientation of the ‘familiar’ ancient historical narrative. Eve MacDonald persuasively demonstrates how North Africa was once a central node of civilization…and that there was nothing inevitable about the supremacy of Rome while the Carthaginians were around. This is not only history reclaimed; this is history at its best.” – Lloyd Llewellyn-Jones, author of Persians
“Eve MacDonald’s important new book puts Carthage, at last, at the center of its own tale. The narrative that emerges is both deeply researched history…and, at the same time, epic in its sweep—and a long-awaited riposte to Rome’s monopoly on the history of its conquests.” – Emily Hauser, author of Penelope’s Bones
“Deploying the latest archaeological discoveries with deep and revealing research, Eve MacDonald’s Carthage shines welcome new light on the ancient origins and trajectory of the mysterious North African empire that challenged Rome’s power in the Mediterranean.” – Adrienne Mayor, author of The Amazons

Eve MacDonald is an ancient historian, archaeologist, and senior lecturer in ancient history at Cardiff University. One of the world’s foremost experts on the history and material culture of Carthage, North Africa, and the Middle East, she is the author of Hannibal. When not teaching in Cardiff, she lives in London.

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