Battle of Asculum (In the Shadow of Olympus)

 

Asculum is a small town on the Adriatic coast of present-day Italy, and the site of the climactic Battle of Asculum between the Roman Republic and a combined army under the banner of the Kingdom of Epirus. The battle was both a turning point in the First Pyrrhic War and the event from which the timeline In The Shadow of Olympus diverges from the standard timeline.