IDENTITY
Salammbô
Literature
Work Summary
A historical novel set in ancient Carthage after the First Punic War. The mercenary revolt, political violence and the fatal relationship between Salammbô and Mathô are rendered through elaborate archaeological detail, exotic spectacle and highly controlled descriptive prose.
Evidence Summary
The novel supplies a cultural-historical reference point in his reflection on antiquity.
No direct reading statement or artistic influence claim is made in this occurrence.
CONTEXT
Author / Source
Gustave Flaubert
Work
Salammbô
Years / Period
29 Mar 1889
Van Gogh Relation
Compared / Connected, Mentioned
EVIDENCE
Key Quotation
CONNECTIONS
Evidence Trail
29 Mar 1889 — Letter 753
Mentioned · Mentioned / used as historical analogy
Van Gogh dates an ancient epitaph imaginatively to 'the time of Flaubert's Salammbô'.
Response: The novel supplies a cultural-historical reference point in his reflection on antiquity.
Connection: No direct reading statement or artistic influence claim is made in this occurrence.
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