Libyan's War: Mathos and the Truceless Fury of Carthage

The Libyan's War: Mathos and the Truceless Fury of Carthage In 241 BC, a bankrupt Carthage tried to stiff twenty thousand veteran soldiers out of their wages, and nearly paid with its life. This is the story of Mathos, the Libyan officer who turned a mercenary pay dispute into a three-year war that came within a hair's breadth of destroying one of the ancient Mediterranean's great powers. Drawing ...