Ancient Cities

"Once there was an ancient town called Carthage, inhabited by emigrants from Tyre, and confronting Italy, opposite to the mouth of the Tiber but far away."
-Virgil, The Aeneid (Harmondsworth, Middlesex, 1982), BOOK ONE, p. 27.

"Ys was a colony of Carthage which had been a colony of Tyre."
-see The History of Ys.

Manson Everard of the Time Patrol must ensure the destruction of Carthage, "Delenda est Carthago," but must also save Tyre from destruction by the time traveling criminals called Exaltationists.

Also in Virgil's opening pages, we find "Destiny" and "desire" on p. 27 and "...the spinning Fates..." on p. 28. Destiny and Desire personified and the three Fates are characters in Neil Gaiman's The Sandman.

Rereading Virgil, I remember Anderson and Gaiman.