About the book: 2011 / This ritual dates back to the days of the founding of Rome. In late autumn, when the harvest had already been harvested and the soldiers were resting from bloody battles, the gods of war and earth were offered the best that the city had. The ritual victim was the war horse that came first in the chariot race during the festive celebrations on the Campus Martius. But this time the victim is doomed to be a man! The man to whom Rome owes many victories. A man who was revered as a god by almost all the inhabitants of the city. And now the people close to him decided to sacrifice him in order to free Rome from the tyrant.