With 'The Betrayal of Rome' the trilogy on Scipio is closed and we are shown the twilight of the different characters known during the previous two novels (both friends and enemies of the African): Hannibal, Cato the Censor and his ally Gracchus, the slave Netikerty, the prostitute Arete, the faithful Gaius Laelius, his family, the playwright Plautus. The twilight of characters in a Rome that finally resurfaces victorious but doesn't hesitate to ravage for it even its most outstanding heroes.
