Germanikus

The workshy lazy Germanicus is taken to Rome by slave traders and sold straight to the nouveau riche Roman Tusnelda He manages to escape but only to end up in the next misery as a taster at the imperial court When the emperor dies he is arrested as an emperors assassin and is to be thrown to the tigers in the arenaWith the help of the black slave Saba he manages to win the deadly fight and is proclaimed against his will the new emperor of the Roman EmpireHis pragmatic ideas as a statesman explain why the Roman Empire ended so abruptly At the side of Saba who is elevated to empress he returns to his home village of Sumpfing where he now promises himself completely new perspectives