Ben Kane

And they were moving north.

And I don't know what he must have been thinking because he knew that 10 legions were on his tail.

And they were being hounded by Crassus at this point.

And there are a couple of places where we think the final battle might have been.

Again, because there have been no archaeological finds to prove it.

It's really, really difficult to prove ancient battlefields, as I'm sure you know.

Very rare to be able to say with certainty.

But a plausible one is near a small town or village, more like, called Oliveto Citra, which is on the banks of the modern-day river Sele, which is the Salarnus in ancient times.

which is north of Pistum and before Salerno.

So not far from Salerno, modern day Salerno.

And I've been there.

I mean, I've actually driven this entire route.

I've driven from Medina to Reggio and almost back when I was researching the novel.

I've been to all the places in the book that we know of that he was.

And I've been to Oliveto, Citra, and...

It's a perfect place for a battlefield.

It's got mountains on both sides.

There's a river in the bottom, but there's a big flat area on one side of the river.

It's a big wide area.

It's big enough for an army to deploy.