Basically all of those words. I'm admittedly a Latin nerd more specifically than a general Mediterranean classics nerd, so what I know of Carthage definitely comes from the other side of the Punic Wars (+ Mary Gentle's Book of Ash), but it's enough in the neighborhood to make my ears perk up. I am a literal card-carrying archaeologist (well, I guess a diploma is not card-sized); I love historical fantasy and tend to fall face-first into research for it; and "pulp adventure, but hopefully less sexist and colonialist, plus dragons" was more or less the starting concept for the Memoirs of Lady Trent.
Thank you for the book recs! I will make a note of them/add them to my book-buying wish list, and it's possible that someday a novel will fall out of the other end of this pipeline.
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Basically all of those words. I'm admittedly a Latin nerd more specifically than a general Mediterranean classics nerd, so what I know of Carthage definitely comes from the other side of the Punic Wars (+ Mary Gentle's Book of Ash), but it's enough in the neighborhood to make my ears perk up. I am a literal card-carrying archaeologist (well, I guess a diploma is not card-sized); I love historical fantasy and tend to fall face-first into research for it; and "pulp adventure, but hopefully less sexist and colonialist, plus dragons" was more or less the starting concept for the Memoirs of Lady Trent.
Thank you for the book recs! I will make a note of them/add them to my book-buying wish list, and it's possible that someday a novel will fall out of the other end of this pipeline.