The Tale Of Rome

The end of our trilogy of the sack of Rome. Brennus is history, and Rome is saved. We also get the best of news from Aeliana and Lucius.Partial TranscriptLast week we saw Brennus and Quintus Sulpicius holding meetings to decide the fate of Rome. Both sides were exhausted, both sides had dead piling up on a daily basis, and both sides had an ego larger than the Seven Hills of Rome, combined…But here, one of the two sides had a slight advantage, and that advantage was the hope that Camillus would arrive with his troops, any time now.In the meantime, I want you to imagine the city of Rome.The Circus Maximus, which still only possessed some disposable wooden grades, had become a temporary morgue, and the stench coming from the place, let everyone know where the Gauls decided to pile up and and burn their dead warriors.To make matters worse, that year had an extremely temperate winter — as if goddess Cloacina, goddess of Rome’s sewers, had decided to clog the drains of the city.And it was as if Poena, goddess of p