A legend that would change Rome forever.
Rome, 495 BC. The young Republic fights for its very survival.
As the Volscians press greedily against Rome’s borders, a different war rages within the city itself. Pride and privilege clash with hunger and despair as patricians and plebeians are driven toward open conflict. In this dark age begins the extraordinary rise of a man history will remember as the Roman Achilles. His name is Lucius Siccius Dentatus.
Born a simple farmer, Dentatus faces the destruction of his family under the brutal law of debt bondage known as nexum. From this injustice he is forged into an unstoppable warrior of the legion. He is a man who bleeds not only for Rome’s borders, but who dares to stand against the greed of the powerful, including the arrogant consul Appius Claudius.
Two legends. One battlefield.
Fighting at the side of the famed Gnaeus Marcius Coriolanus, Dentatus storms the walls of Corioli and proves