While Caesar
builds a legend far from Rome, his friend Gaius Brutus is fighting
battles of another sort, rising to power in the wake of the shocking
assassination of a dictator. Once Brutus and Caesar were as close as
brothers, both devoted to the same ideals and attracted to the same
forbidden woman. Now, when Caesar returns - with the winds of glory at
his back - they will find themselves at odds. For each hasbuilt an army
of elite warriors - Caesar's forged in far-flung battles, Brutus' from
Rome's political killing fields. But in an era when men die for their
treachery and their allegiances, the two men will soon be united by a
shock wave from the north. There, a gladiator named Spartacus is
gathering strength, building an army of seventy thousand desperate
slaves - to fight a cataclysmic battle against Rome itself.