The publishing group "ENAS" expands the "Cultural Enlightenment" series with another wonderful book, "Rome and Carthage. The world is small for two." Its author, historian Gennady Levitsky, relies only on primary sources: the works of ancient Roman and ancient Greek authors, chronicles, annals, published results of archaeological excavations. The confrontation between Rome and Carthage is not just one of the episodes of antiquity, but a fateful milestone in the history of our civilization, the path of development of which was was largely determined by the outcome of the Punic Wars, which differed from all conflicts of antiquity not only in scale, but also in consequences. The further development of civilization depended on their outcome. The scales of success swung for a long time before the cup fell towards the people who were to decide the fate of the world. Rome courageously fought off stronger neighbors and expanded its borders step by step. The Carthaginians, a tribe of merchants, preferred to act by deceit and cunning... The history of the Punic Wars is the history of the transformation of Rome from an ordinary city into a world state. And the conquests that followed the wars with Carthage seem quite logical. Alas! Rome, by its nature, was doomed to rule the world, because it not only could not tolerate someone’s power over itself, but also did not tolerate the fact that some peoples were outside its power. The book contains many portraits of famous personalities of the era of the Punic Wars, describes their actions, important facts of their biographies.