7 days ago by silvia_duchessa

Oh I cannot pick one! The beginning of the Roman Empire, I think around the turn of the millenium, because the Augustan era is my absolute favourite in Roman history, and of course there is the birth of Jesus, and at that time there are SO many people alive who I would love to meet. St. Petersburg, ...

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7 days ago by smellincoffee

A Gladiator Dies Only Once: The Further Investigations of Gordianus the Finder © 2005 Steven Saylor 269 pages Although the meat of the Roma sub Rosa series is its novels, Steven Saylor also enjoys writing short stories set within it, as these allow him to explore elements of Rome that don't justify ...

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20 days ago by smellincoffee

A Mist of Prophecies © 2003 Steven Saylor 304 pages Gordianus the Finder and Rome have been through much turmoil in the past two preceding books, Rome having been plunged into civil war by the ambitions of those two men and Gordianus having been dragged behind history's wake by his family -- one son ...

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24 days ago by Joseph Patterson

Greek Letters and Orthodoxy:Their Relations During Two Millenia by Constantine Cavarnos This is a very interesting and short book by the lettered Constantine Cavarnos. The book is a published lecture Cavarnos gave to the Community Center of the Church of Archangels in Watertown, Massachusetts in 197 ...

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28 days ago by smellincoffee

Last Seen in Massilia © 2000 Steven Saylor 277 pages When I last visited Rome under the rose, I followed Gordianus as he experienced Rome at war. Pompey the Great fled Rome and then Italy when Julius Caesar crossed the Rubicon, and Gordianus was present to see Pompey’s last stand on Italian soil -- ...

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41 days ago by modisti

The death of compositional music?! Dumitrescu and Avram are successful rebuttals. Although two of the most compelling and exciting living composers…” Josh RONSEN, Austin, Texas * “The extraordinary and uncategoriseable Dumitrescu / Avram team…” Chris CUTLER, ReR Megacorp – London * “Iancu DUMITRESCU ...

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45 days ago by Simon Carless

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48 days ago by smellincoffee

Rubicon © 1999 Steven Saylor 276 pages "Alea iacta est."/"The die is cast." / "Let the game begin!" - Julius Caesar "The most honest man in Rome! No wonder nobody likes you." (Pompey, to Gordianus.) Murder on the Appian Way began with the people of Rome rioting in the streets. Although our Roma sub ...

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57 days ago by smellincoffee

A Murder on the Appian Way © 1997 Steven Saylor 413 pages "Oh, the times! Oh, the morals!" - Cicero "Ah, judgment! Thou art fled to brutish beasts and men have lost their reason!" - Mark Antony, Shakespeare's Julius Caesar. (Act 3, scene 2) A Murder on the Appian Way starts out in chaos. Publius Clo ...

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60 days ago by smellincoffee

The Sons of Caesar: Imperial Rome's First Dynasty © 2006 Philip Matyszak 296 pages, 16 pages of plates. Most of my Roman reading has been set in the late Republic, although as a western student of history I have a working knowledge of the Roman empire. Even so, the amount of emperors I can name is s ...

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