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Salammbô
Salammbô is a historical novel by the French writer Gustave Flaubert, published in 1862. It is set in Carthage during the Mercenary War of 241–238 BCE, when unpaid veterans of the First Punic War rebelled against the city. Accounts of the Punic Empire mention the novel as the best-known literary treatment of this conflict.
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- The Epoch Institute. (2026). Salammbô. In The Epoch Institute Encyclopedia. https://the-epoch-institute.org/encyclopedia/salammbo
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