Salammbô is a Carthaginian priestess, the daughter of Hamilcar Barca, in Gustave Flaubert's 1862 novel. Philippe Druillet turned the story into space opera in Lone Sloane, starting in Métal Hurlant in 1980. His three albums, Salammbô, Carthage and Matho, put Sloane in the role of the rebel Mathô.