About the book: 2014 / Carthage...Heir to the civilization of the Phoenician sailors who founded many colonies. The richest city on the western Mediterranean coast of Africa, possessing a powerful fleet and a combat-ready army. A trading power that dominated the region long before the arrival of the Romans. And yet “Carthage must be destroyed!” Why not conquered, not conquered, but rather wiped off the face of the earth? For what reasons did the existence of Carthage become so unbearable for its main competitor - the young Roman republics?