Never Again

Rome has expelled its king. Now it must prove that he will never return.For the first time since Romulus, the city stands without a throne. But the new order is fragile, and Tarquin is still alive. As Rome struggles to build a government without kings, the revolution faces its first tests from within and without. The hated Tarquin name threatens the new consulship, royalist conspirators plot to restore the monarchy, and Lucius Junius Brutus is forced to choose between his own sons and the oath he made to Rome.Then Tarquin turns to war.At the Silva Arsia, Brutus comes face-to-face with Arruns Tarquinius—the prince who once mocked him on the road to Delphi—and the struggle for Rome's future is settled at terrible personal cost.Drawing on Livy and Dionysius of Halicarnassus, the Season I finale follows the dangerous first days after the fall of the kings, as Rome begins transforming rebellion into something meant to endure.The king is gone. The throne is empty. But removing a monarch was only the beginning.Rome must now make its promise permanent:Never again. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.