AT THE START OF FLAUBERT'S ‘Salammbô’ I thought his spectacular descriptions bordered on the grandiloquent – was it possible there were quite so many different races amongst the mercenaries at
Tuesday 28 June 2011
FLAUBERT'S ‘Salammbô’
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AT THE START OF FLAUBERT'S ‘Salammbô’ I thought his spectacular descriptions bordered on the grandiloquent – was it possible there were quite so many different races amongst the mercenaries atCarthage ?....Gauls, Balearics, Romans,
Lydians, Namidians to name but a few!
On arrival in Patmos, in the remote Eastern Aegean,
the Goddess Amazon.com bequeathed me ‘The
Great Sea – A Human History of the Mediterranean’ by David Abulafia, Flaubert was fully
vindicated….in 1000BC, Libyans, Assyrians, Phoenicians, Greeks, Philistines,
Ethiopians, Cananites, Hittites conquer, enslave, trade or enrol as mercenaries
in each others armies….what a contrast to the provincial France of poor Madame
Bovary!
AT THE START OF FLAUBERT'S ‘Salammbô’ I thought his spectacular descriptions bordered on the grandiloquent – was it possible there were quite so many different races amongst the mercenaries at
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