

Richard Miles is a young historian whose book, Carthage Must Be Destroyed, sets out to record everything we know about Carthage, from the legends of its founding, through its umpteen wars, up to the final catastrophe.Ĭarthage Must Be Destroyed is long, 373 pages of text, 77 pages of notes, 34 page bibliography and a 66-page index = 521 pages. Its history came to an end in 146 BC, the year in which Rome defeated and utterly destroyed it.

According to legend Carthage was founded in 814 BC.
