In Search of Carthage's DNA

If Rome was the greatest superpower in the ancient world, Carthage was its most distinguished rival. The growing antagonism between a hegemonic Carthage in the Western Mediterranean and an increasingly powerful Roman republic converged into two total wars that ended with Roman victory and the end of the power of a Carthage to which it was reduced to nothing after the reiterative "delenda est Carthago" of Catón el Viejo served as an antecedent an…