This chapter's epigraph is from the opening lines of The Iliad, which are translated into English as "The Iliad: A Tale of Two Cities" . The Iliad is a story about two cities, Athens and Rome. The first city is the city of Athens, which is in the south of the world, and the second city is Rome, in the north. Athens is the capital of the Greek Empire, and Rome is the center of the Roman Empire. The two cities are separated by a strait, which separates them from one another. The Greek Empire is the world's largest and most powerful empire, with a population of over one hundred million people. The Roman Empire, on the other hand, has only about one hundred thousand people, and its population is only about fifty thousand. This strait separates Athens from Rome, which has the largest population of any city in the world. The second city, Rome, has the third largest population, and it is divided into two parts: the first part is