Staying in power is much more difficult than achieving it. Julia is at the height of her power, but betrayal and family division threaten to spoil everything. To make matters worse, a Galen docotor diagnosed the empress with what he, in Greek, calls karkinos, and that the Romans, in Latin, call cancer. The brutal confrontation between her two children leads Julia's dynasty to collapse. In the midst of such physical and moral pain, anyone would have...