Beschrijving
Paris, Charpentier, 1924, 374pp. attractive half leather binding, marbled boards, gilt lettering and ornaments on spine, armorial bookplate of Mr C.H. Muntz.Salammbô (1862) is a historical novel by Gustave Flaubert. It is set in Carthage immediately before and during the Mercenary Revolt (241-237 B.C.). Flaubert's principal source was Book I of Polybius's Histories. The novel was enormously popular when first published and jumpstarted a renewed interest in the history of the Roman Republic's conflict with the North African Phoenician outpost of Carthage.