Melqart's Dirge

A Review of Eve MacDonald's Carthage: A New History

If you’ve taken a high school Latin class or a college Roman civ class, then you almost certainly know at least one story about the Carthaginians: Hannibal coming over the Alps with war elephants, which is easily one of the best stories in all of classical antiquity. But you might not know that Hannibal’s primary god, Melqart, was associated with the Gr…