Carthage: Epic History and Collective Memory

by Dr. Eve MacDonald

Thursday 18 March 2027
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The memory of Carthage haunts the history of ancient Rome – this talk will explore why and how we remember Carthage, the Punic Wars, Queen Dido and Hannibal in the ways we do.

Dr. Eve MacDonald

Eve MacDonald is historian and archaeologist who teaches at Cardiff University.  She is the author of Hannibal: A Hellenistic Life (Yale, 2015), Carthage: An Archaeological History (with Sandra Bingham, Bloomsbury, 2024) and Carthage: A New History of An Ancient Empire (Ebury, 2025).  She is interested in the intersections between memory, landscape and history and has worked in the field in North Africa and across the Middle East and Iran.  Her forthcoming book is called The Last Persian Empire: A History of the Sasanians and will be published by Yale University Press in 2027.

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