Salambo, by Gustave Flaubert (Berkley Medallion, 1966). According to Wikipedia, this novel “is set in Carthage immediately before and during the Mercenary Revolt (241–237 B.C.). Flaubert’s principal source was Book I of [Greek historian] Polybius’s Histories. The novel was enormously popular when first published [in 1862, as Salammbô] and jump-started a renewed interest in the history of the Roman Republic’s conflict with the North African Phoenician outpost of Carthage.”
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