Salammbô

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Salammbô is an 1862 historical novel by Gustave Flaubert, set in Carthage immediately before and during the Mercenary War (241–237 BCE). Flaubert's principal source was Book I of the Histories by the Greek historian Polybius. The novel was enormously popular when first published in 1862. It was translated into English by Eleanor Marx in 1886, thus introduced to the English-speaking world and becoming an English-language bestseller. The novel jumpstarted a renewed interest in the history of the Roman Republic's conflict with the North African Phoenician outpost of Carthage.

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