In war, there are no easy choices. The Second Punic War made gamblers of the Mediterranean world. Declare for Carthage or declare for Rome? The odds are 50/50 for life or death. Apollonides of Syracuse observed, "No city has ever had a brighter prospect of permanent security or a stronger chance of being utterly ruined than we have at the present moment." Pick a side Syracuse; Capua; Iberian people of the Ebro River; Tribes of the Po River...