To Watch the Fall of Empires

Delenda est Carthago. When two people on opposite sides of the Punic Wars discover they now hold a significant amount of political power, they find themselves with many choices and even more opportunities. Will they be able to overcome their differences and work together toward the better future they both want? Or will they fall to the ideologies of their Empires? 

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Cover Image sourced from RawPixel, Loggia, Villa Giulia, Rome (ca. 1907) by John Singer Sargent. Original from The MET Museum.