Fighting.
Steel yourself and approach the capital as necessary! But we all can't be soldiers and blacksmiths! We all get one life and one chance at glory! Any Roman soldier would enlist with the knowledge that at any time, hordes of invaders and hostile armies could be creeping up the steps to overthrow the empire! Take it from us: this does not—we repeat, does not—protect anyone from real claymores, arrows, or cannonballs. Fighting minotaur and ogres and other mythical beasts in ancient Rome would be quite the task—and that's just the beginning.