Shadows in Bronze has Falco posing as a door-to-door salesman and a pater familias on vacation by the Bay of Naples.
The young Josephus is a diplomat to Rome, a scholar-priest, a conciliator with the Romans, a rebel general, and a turncoat within the first volume.
George Gissing’s unfinished Veranilda highlights the architecture and religion of ancient Rome in the difficult era of the 540’s. If any wan comes along with a histhry iv Greece or Rome that’ll show me th’people fightin’, gettin dhrunk, makin’ love, gettin’ married, owin’ th’grocery man an’ bein’ without hard coal, I’ll believe they was a Greece or Rome… Actors and pirates become involved in the Mule Driver’s (Marius’s) attempts to undermine Sulla (Stain) and to foil Strychnine (Mithridates) in this view of the late republic from the perspective of the common man and his Egyptian mistress Cuttlefish. The Forgotten Legion Chronicles: Book 2 Score: 85 Our rating: 9.0 | 11 positive reader reviews Empire of the Eagle by Andre Norton and Susan Shwartz starts with more Roman legionaries who survive the Carrhae disaster and then fight their way through India on to China – not much history here, but there is an authentic spirit of the hardened legionary, living to fight and adapting to new circumstances.
“Among Jews a Jew, Greeks a Greek” expresses the tone of a novel that treats pagan, Christian and Jewish traditions with respect. The heroine in Marilyn Todd’s I Claudia is a fictional creation who becomes a sleuth to conceal her practice of a still older profession. Cecelia Holland’s Death of Attila describes the army of the Huns in disarray after the wedding banquet and death of their leader who leaves a vacuum after his death. Our rating: 8.8 | 3 positive reader reviews
Cecelia Holland’s Belt of Gold describes 9th Century Constantinople through the eyes of one of Charlemagne’s knights stopping off on the way home from a pilgrimage, but in spite of the presence of Blues and Greens, this moves us into another period of historical fiction. The Apostle* follows Paul from flinging stones at Reb Istephan, down the road to Damascus and through the mission to the Gentiles. The Hatshepsut Trilogy: Book 3 Score: 90 Feuchtwanger’s trilogy, Josephus*, Jew of Rome, and Josephus and the Emperor sympathetically chronicles the life of the historian Flavius Josephus. The chronology is confused, and the use of the character of Petronius as the relatively virtuous pagan is whimsical, but the central story captures both the Roman and the Christian ethos. In the midst are Romulus, Brennus and Tarquinius, all men with good reason to hate Rome.
The Yiddish language writer Sholem Asch shocked many of his co-religionists with a trilogy of novels favorably portraying the origins of the messianic religion. She falls in love with Senenmut, the brill [...], 9. The Eye of Re by Patricia L ONeill When just fourteen, she kills a marauder, is betrothed to her loathsome brother and becomes the most powerful priestess in Egypt. John Williams’ Augustus presents the emperor’s life through a series of documents giving us views such as those of Marcus Agrippa, Cicero, and Antony.. Julia’s memorable diaries from Panadeteria carry much of the narrative and are the most compelling parts of this 1973 National Book Award winner. Red Queen, White Queen pits poetic Celts against practical Romans in a war to avenge the indignities heaped on Queen Boudicca. Each of the volumes contains a glossary and lists of characters, making the confusing political and family relationships somewhat easier to follow. Anatole France’s story “The Procurator of Judea” depends on a trick ending, but it is an authentic view of Jewish society through Roman eyes.
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Graves’s wise, liberal and valiant Claudius probably would not have been recognized by his contemporaries, including his mother who thought him an idiot, but the reinterpreted character makes for a compelling narrator, although one wishes Livia’s libel lawyer were given a chance to present her side. Last Act in Palmyra takes him to the Near East where his employment as writer for a comedy troupe sets him to musing on his play that opens with a recently murdered father’s ghost appearing to a son. The magical thing about historical fiction is the way it truly makes you feel like you’re experiencing life in another era. For instance, in Venus in Copper Falco suggests that he needs a girl to take his messages while he is out.
4.1 out of 5 stars 102. Praetorian by Simon Scarrow In every one, dark forces threatened Greece; terrible evil was poised to reenter the world. The Venus Throw alternates between international intrigue and household life, with a subplot involving the poet Catullus and his enamorata Clodia.
Lindsey Davis offers the hard-boiled informer Marcus Didius Falco, an ancient Roman version of the 1940’s private detective.
So Tamis made it her mission to see that Parmenion would before [...], 4. Letters between two of his mentors document his struggle with his intolerant “Galilean” enemies. “The cloying, rich, sweet and sickening, sticking, stinking smell of death” is the kind of phrase which typifies the novel. Kindle $0.00 $ 0.
The two boys were called Akamatsu, meaning ‘red pine’, and Oumi, ‘blue sea’, while the girls’ names were Shirane, ‘white root’, and Kurono, ‘black field [...], 8. This poetic novel lives up to the tragic beauty promised in its epigraph, “There are ten measures of beauty in all the world . By presenting the life of an independent Roman woman, a unique perspective is gained. In this well-crafted novel, the Gauls join the Parthians, fighting where no Gauls have fought before, trying to fashion a name for heroism.
Colleen McCullough’s series Masters of Rome exhibits meticulous research and a subtle interpretation of the political history of Rome from the time of Marius through to Caesar. France’s Thais is set in Christian North Africa where a courtesan is converted by an anchorite, and vice versa. A strong feminist message pervades this story of the era of Theodosius I. Helen Mahler’s Empress of Byzantium focuses on the Empress Aelia Eudoxia, the daughter of an Athenian philosopher who married Theodosius II. Fiction set in the Roman era sometimes features women, slaves, so-called barbarians, children, and even pets. Nostalgic crowds taunt Emperor Honorius with chants of “Minerva” or “Games” when he makes one of his rare visits to the capital. Walter Pater’s Marius the Epicurean, taking place during the reign of Marcus Aurelius, concerns itself more with philosophy than history. Time to Depart* derives its title from the custom of allowing a convicted criminal a chance to choose exile. Colorless Tsukuru Tazaki and His Years of Pilgrimage by Haruki Murakami The civil wars of the late republic receive irreverent treatment from John Arden in Vox Pop*, relating events between 91 BC and 81 BC. Our features are original articles from our print magazines (these will say where they were originally published) or original articles commissiones for this site. Maier struggles valiantly to make a sympathetic character out of a model of cowardice. There is something about a great historical fiction book. Geoffrey Trease’s Message to Hadrian lives up to its subtitle as an adventure story as a young British orphan explores wider and wider roads leading to the proverbial focal point of all roads. Anne de Leseleuc’s Marcus Aper chez Les Rutenes is one of a series where the orator from Tacitus’ Dialogues solves mysteries in his role as a an advocate in Gaul. The Goth who falls in love with her incurs the wrath of his countrymen in a tried and true Romeo and Juliet plot, but the style is as elegant as that of Collins’ better-known works. Tsukuru Tazaki had four best friends at school. His grandmother hopefully sent him a bevy of female prostitutes, but he hooked them up to chariots and raced them to popular acclaim. Over the last 20 years The Historical Novels Review (the society’s print magazine for our members) has published reviews of some 18,000 historical fiction books.
Albia is now 28 and an established fem [...], Colorless Tsukuru Tazaki and His Years of Pilgrimage.
Stefan Zweig’s The Buried Candelabrum* pursues the menorah stolen from the Temple by Titus and removed from Rome during a sack by the Vandals. Nefertiti: Book 1 Score: 82 Perhaps the best-known of Roman novels, Graves’ I Claudius* and Claudius the God draw from a broad selection of ancient sources, staying faithful in detail while contradicting the main intent. By staying close to the facts of a specific time and place, McCullough, achieves a generalized portrait of politics in any era, much as Anthony Trollope does in his parliamentary novels. David Wishart’s Nero ingeniously explains who was responsible for the fire Nero blamed on the Christians. The 100 works of fiction which will be discussed in this paper provide a history from Romulus’ founding until the final rummaging through the ashes.
In the autumn of AD255 a Roman officer, Marcus Clodius Ballista, is sent east to defend the city of Arete on the Euphrates from attack by the Sassanid Persians, the religious fundamentalists who are the Fire in the East. Robert Pilpel’s Between Eternities alternates between the enlightened rule of the philosopher-emperor and the reign of terror of Commodus, the gladiator-emperor. Bryher wrote Coin of Carthage about the Italian peninsula during Hannibal’s invasion. Written during the Hitler era, this German Jew’s novel highlights the heroism of the Jews’ efforts to survive through a rabbinical school and Josephus’s own histories of his people. Evelyn Waugh’s Helena is equally uncritical without the virtue of either historical accuracy or the author’s customary satirical verve. Amazon and the Amazon logo are trademarks of Amazon.com, Inc. or its affiliates. . Tiberius, another autobiography “discovered” by Massie stands in contrast to the monster of Suetonius or Tacitus. Arthur Koestler’s The Gladiators joins the Spartacus revolt in progress.
Our rating: 8.0 | 0 positive reader reviews Fiction makes the history of the Roman world come to life because fiction is freed from the constraints which make history tell the victors’ story. Salammbo, a priestess with a personal python, evokes the exotic aura of the doomed alternative to Rome. The Iron Hand of Mars shows Falco boasting that he has his own resources for boning up on senators, and gossip is his stock in trade. The French writer Hugo Monteilhet’s Neropolis deserves to be translated, if only for the account of Nero’s plans for the new Rome’s permanent open air sex market and the contrast with the humane simplicity of the early Christians.
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We support our members, and our members support us! On a cheerful note for those of us who appreciate the series, Falco implies that he lived at least through the age of Trajan, giving Davis the scope for at least forty more years of Falco. The teenaged emperor took as lovers a male charioteer and a male prostitute before seriously violating propriety by marrying a Vestal virgin. Petronius the Arbiter narrates a tale which does not sympathise with young ‘Lucius’ (Petronius always uses his birth name rather than ‘Nero’) but it explains some of his actions through youth and bad influences. Duggan’s Winter Quarters follows a legionary from Gaul after the defeat of the loathsome Crassus at Carrhae. Andivius Hedulio by Edward White shows Commodus killing elephants with arrows and ostriches with clubs while a conspiracy to murder him unfolds. It is also where our staff first look for news and features for the site.
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