Los idus de enero

Ides of January of the year of the consulship of Lucius Opimius and Quintus Fabius Maximus. The Senate of Rome is becoming a battleground between the irreconcilable conservative factions and that of the followers of the revolutionary Gaius Gracchus. At the same time, the tension, increasingly palpable, threatens to turn into violent riots that would burn down the most powerful city in the world. All on the day that the future general Quintus Sertorius, one of the most brilliant strategists of the ancient world, will be born. Around him and his mother Rhea the stories of characters, each more different, are intertwined. Antiodemis, the actress who has come from Cyprus to conquer the Roman public and, in the process, her personal independence. Her protector, Servilius Caepio, a nobleman whose vices and debts make him one of the most dishonest and treacherous politicians in a city corrupt to the core. The brutal Celtiberian Nuntiusmortis, his escort. The Greek scholar Artemidorus, who writes about the story of a cursed treasure looted a century and a half earlier at the oracle of Delphi, and his beloved, the ancient prostitute Urania. Gaius Marius, the rough and honest soldier who dreams of becoming the first man in Rome. The despicable Septimuleius, patron of the Lavernos clan, who extorts and terrorizes the Aventine with his cohort of thieves, murderers and prostitutes, like the beautiful Berenice or the girl Sierpe, who already knows how to handle her dagger with the pulse and determination of a professional killer. And, above all, Stigmata, the man with the scars. Gladiator, assassin and paid lover of mysterious origins, whose destiny will be inextricably linked to that of the child who is about to be born.