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Hi, Olivia. Hi, Katie. It's 40 BC.

It's been four years since Julia Caesar was murdered by the ancient Roman Senate.

Octavian, his adopted heir, is wreaking havoc across Rome.

He's seized the properties of many ancient families and given their villas and

their farms to his own soldiers. Sure. Central Italy is in chaos and these displaced families,

plus refugees from his wars, they're all pouring into the streets of Rome,

and he doesn't seem to care.

Hmm.

Inevitably, a group of people take a stand, and it's come to this moment.

They're making their last stand behind the walls of the hilltop town of Perugia. Octavian has him surrounded

and besieged. He doesn't care how many people die. His soldiers are hurling these lead bullets

...