The final discussion of Fortune's Favorites by Colleen McCullough on February 6 will concentrate on Chapter VI through the end. Some of the event move back to an earlier time.
- Pompey gets a much-needed lesson in humility and warcraft from Quintus Sertorius and realizes that there is more to Metellus Pius than he thought. Sertorius meets his end.
- Caesar becomes a father and makes his mark in the courts.
- Introduction of the Claudii/Clodii and of the young Antonii after the deaths of their respective fathers.
- Caesar goes back to the East, the death of King Nicomedes, and the entertaining story of Caesar and the Pirates. Caesar makes his own little war.
- The Spartacus uprising, in a different viewpoint than the usual fictional narratives.
- The first consulate of Pompey & Crassus.
- Cicero and the prosecution of Gaius Verres.
- Marcus Cato and the basilica story.
- Bold funeral games for Aunt Julia and Cinilla.
