Quo Vadis

Rome during the reign of Nero was a glorious place for the emperor & his court; there were grand feasts, tournaments for poets, & exciting games & circuses filling the days & nights. The pageantry & pretentious displays of excess were sufficient to cloy the senses of participants as well as to offend the sensitive. Petronius, a generous & noble Roman, a man of the world much in favor at the court of Nero, is intrigued by a strange tale related by his nephew Marcus Vinitius of his encounter with a mysterious young woman called Ligia with whom Vinitius falls madly in love. Ligia, a captured King's daughter & a one-time hostage of Rome, is now a foster child of a noble Roman household. She's also a Christian.