Hidden within the old hero myths are tales of men who sweated and stank, fought and blasphemed. They died entombed in the epic tales or forgotten in the mists of antiquity. Hall, a foundling raised by Celts high in the Alps, seeks his fortune and the mystery of his birth in the land of the Etruscans, in the cluster of hilltop villages that would someday be called Rome, in the Greece of legend when the heroes of the classical age were still remembered...