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The second novel by Gustave Flaubert, author of the infamous ''[[
Whereas ''Madame Bovary'' charted the agonisingly mediocre tragedy of a bored housewife and her hapless husband in early 19th-century France, Salammbo is a richly exotic war epic set in ancient Carthage. The scale is vast, the imagery opulent and intense, and the battle scenes brutal enough to make [[
After an exhausting war with Rome, the city of Carthage finds itself incapable of paying its vast mercenary army. Increasingly desperate attempts to fob them off spark a full-on rebellion, and eventually a destructive total war between the [[Dumb Muscle|powerful but self-destructively disorganised mercenaries]] and a Carthage [[Vestigial Empire|at but a shadow of its former strength.]]
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In the midst of all this, the mercenary leader Matho falls obsessively in love with the beautiful Salammbo, daughter of Carthage's most fearsome general. His maniacal desire for her drives him to unprecedented lengths to obtain her, unleashing a conflict like no other upon the Carthaginian empire.
While just as popular as Flaubert's works in most of the world, ''Salammbo'' [[Americans Hate Tingle|has never really caught on in the Anglosphere]]. (In fact, the only exposure most Americans have had to the name is through the film ''[[
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* [[Army of Thieves and Whores]]: The Mercenaries, whose ranks are eventually expanded with tribes from all over Africa.
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