Epic and compelling Daily Mail Engaging ... full of interesting things about the radical social experiment of the city-state, and the new ways of living it permitted Independent An epic, spanning five millennia and half the globe Daily Telegraph Ancient Worlds really does put flesh on the bones of history and Richard Miles brings long lost cities to life Observer

Richard Miles is the author of Carthage Must Be Destroyed: The Rise and Fall of an Ancient Civilization. He teaches classics at the University of Sydney and was previously a Newton Trust Lecturer in the Faculty of Classics and Fellow and Director of Studies at Trinity Hall, University of Cambridge. He has written widely on Punic, Roman and Vandal North Africa and has directed archaeological excavations in Carthage and Rome.