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* BadassBookworm: Spendius can speak every language in the mercenary army, snipe a man with a longbow from an enormous distance, infiltrate Carthage not once, but twice, and operate (and build) siege engines like a pro.
** He's pretty worthless as a general however, managing to get defeated by Hanno.
** He's pretty worthless as a general however, managing to get defeated by Hanno.
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* BadassBookworm: Spendius can speak every language in the mercenary army, snipe a man with a longbow from an enormous distance, infiltrate Carthage not once, but twice, and operate (and build) siege engines like a pro.
**pro. He's pretty worthless as a general general, however, managing to get defeated by Hanno.
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* HistoricalVillainUpgrade
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* MoralityPet: [[FutureBadass Hannibal]] is one to Hamilcar, although ''horrifically'' subverted. To save his life, [[spoiler: Hamilcar sends a slave's child to be roasted alive as a human sacrifice in his place.]]
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* MoralityPet: MoralityPet:
** [[FutureBadass Hannibal]] is one to Hamilcar, although ''horrifically'' subverted. To save his life, [[spoiler: Hamilcar sends a slave's child to be roasted alive as a human sacrifice in his place.]]
** [[FutureBadass Hannibal]] is one to Hamilcar, although ''horrifically'' subverted. To save his life, [[spoiler: Hamilcar sends a slave's child to be roasted alive as a human sacrifice in his place.]]
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* OneSteveLimit: Flaubert changes one historical character's name (Hannibal) to Hanno to avoid confusion with the other, better-known Hannibal (Hamilcar's young son).
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* WhatMeasureIsANonHuman: "They are not men but oxen!"
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* WhatMeasureIsANonHuman: The priests bellow "They are not men but oxen!"oxen!" to get the people to accept the sacrifice of children.
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* OneMarioLimit: Flaubert changes one historical character's name (Hannibal) to Hanno to avoid confusion with the other, better-known Hannibal (Hamilcar's young son).
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* WoobieDestroyerOfWorlds: Spendius, born to a poor Campanian prostitute and enslaved at a young age kickstarts the whole war out of resentment.
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* KillEmAll: Very few named characters are left by the end.
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* ContemptibleCover: Publishers tend to like putting topless BellyDancer types on the front.
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** He's pretty worthless as a genral however, managing to get defeated by Hanno.
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** He's pretty worthless as a genral general however, managing to get defeated by Hanno.
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** He's pretty worthless as a genral however, managing to get defeated by Hanno.
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* OneMarioLimit: Flaubert changes one historical character's name (Hannibal) to Hanno to avoid confusion with the other, better-known Hannibal (Hamilcar's young son).
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How To Create A Works Page Things not to include: value judgments (don't say how much it sucked/how awesome it was), critical reception (that's just a specific variant of value judgments)
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While just as popular as Flaubert's works in most of the world, ''Salammbo'' [[AmericansHateTingle has never really caught on in the Anglosphere]]. (In fact, the only exposure most Americans have had to the name is through the film ''Film/CitizenKane'' - an opera based on the book is the one Kane's wife badly performs during the course of the movie.) Nevertheless, it is a one-of-a-kind novel and well worth a read.
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While just as popular as Flaubert's works in most of the world, ''Salammbo'' [[AmericansHateTingle has never really caught on in the Anglosphere]]. (In fact, the only exposure most Americans have had to the name is through the film ''Film/CitizenKane'' - an opera based on the book is the one Kane's wife badly performs during the course of the movie.) Nevertheless, it is a one-of-a-kind novel and well worth a read.
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* HumanSacrifice
** InfantImmortality: Aha, aha... no.
** InfantImmortality: Aha, aha... no.
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* HumanSacrifice
** InfantImmortality: Aha, aha... no.HumanSacrifice: And that includes [[DeathOfAChild children!]]
** InfantImmortality: Aha, aha... no.
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* SlobsVersusSnobs: Obviously, [[WeAreStrugglingTogether Hamilcar and Senate of]] [[DeadlyDecadentCourt Carthage]] as Snob and The Mercenaries as Slob.
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* SlobsVersusSnobs: Obviously, [[WeAreStrugglingTogether Hamilcar and Senate of]] [[DeadlyDecadentCourt [[DecadentCourt Carthage]] as Snob and The Mercenaries as Slob.
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* BlackAndGreyMorality / EvilVsEvil
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* LemonyNarrator: A resounding aversion.
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* LemonyNarrator: A resounding aversion.
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Five Bad Band was cut. In addition, though, this example suffered from ZCE, one character being multiple roles in the band, and one member having a role not part of the trope.
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* FiveBadBand: For the mercenaries:
** TheBigBad: Matho
** DragonInChief / TheEvilGenius: Spendius
** TheBrute: Autharitus
** TheDarkChick: Zarxas
** SixthRangerTraitor: Narr'Havas
** TheBigBad: Matho
** DragonInChief / TheEvilGenius: Spendius
** TheBrute: Autharitus
** TheDarkChick: Zarxas
** SixthRangerTraitor: Narr'Havas
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* FiveBadBand: For the mercenaries:
** TheBigBad: Matho
** DragonInChief / TheEvilGenius: Spendius
** TheBrute: Autharitus
** TheDarkChick: Zarxas
** SixthRangerTraitor: Narr'Havas
** TheBigBad: Matho
** DragonInChief / TheEvilGenius: Spendius
** TheBrute: Autharitus
** TheDarkChick: Zarxas
** SixthRangerTraitor: Narr'Havas
* TheLoad: Hanno and the Carthaginian elite completely botch the first part of the war and have to bailed out by Hamilcar at every turn.
* ManipulativeBastard: Spendius, who kickstarts the whole war to get back at Carthage for enslaving him.
* ManipulativeBastard: Spendius, who kickstarts the whole war to get back at Carthage for enslaving him.
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* ManipulativeBastard: Spendius, who kickstarts the whole war to get back at Carthage for enslaving him.
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* ManipulativeBastard: Spendius, who kickstarts the whole war to get back at Carthage for enslaving him.
* MyGirlIsNotASlut: Hamilcar to Salammbo.
* MyGirlIsNotASlut: Hamilcar to Salammbo.
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Silius Italicus does mention it. Which could be just as apocryphal as Flaubert, but at least it shows the latter didn't initiate it.
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* ArtisticLicenseReligion: The title charater being a priestess of the Carthaginian religion is a bit of an ElephantInTheLivingRoom by itself. ''Salammbo'' initiated the popular belief that there were female priestesses in Carthage, but ancient chronicles don't mention them and archeology about it is sketchy, so their existence is difficult to attest.
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Sadly, this is extrapolating too much
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* ArtisticLicenseReligion: The title charater being a priestess of the Carthaginian religion is a bit of an ElephantInTheLivingRoom by itself. ''Salammbo'' initiated the popular belief that there were female priestesses in Carthage, but ancient chronicles don't mention them and archeology about it is sketchy, so their existence is difficult to attest. What we do know about women in ancient Phoenician religion is that there were sacred ''prostitutes'' of Astarte who also did non-sexual temple services, and those might have carried over to Carthage and remained even although the worship of Astarte was replaced by her equivalent Tanit. With that knowledge, one can read the novel in a completely different light.
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* ArtisticLicenseReligion: The title charater being a priestess of the Carthaginian religion is a bit of an ElephantInTheLivingRoom by itself. ''Salammbo'' initiated the popular belief that there were female priestesses in Carthage, but ancient chronicles don't mention them and archeology about it is sketchy, so their existence is difficult to attest. What we do know about women in ancient Phoenician religion is that there were sacred ''prostitutes'' of Astarte who also did non-sexual temple services, and those might have carried over to Carthage and remained even although the worship of Astarte was replaced by her equivalent Tanit. With that knowledge, one can read the novel in a completely different light.
