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Empire - Steven Saylor

From Ed Cryer <ed@somewhere.in.the.uk>
Newsgroups humanities.classics
Subject Empire - Steven Saylor
Date 2025-08-22 18:43 +0100
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https://www.amazon.co.uk/Empire-Epic-Novel-Ancient-Rome/dp/1849019622

Have you read Suetonius' Twelve Caesars? Or Robert Graves' I Claudius? 
Or Mary Beard's SPQR? I have. The story is so well known, handled by so 
many that it's become almost hackneyed and trite.
But I recently stumbled across Steven Saylor's book, and I'm loving it. 
It's immensely long, written as a novel, but it covers the history of 
Rome from Augustus to the Antonines; and does so in a way that makes it 
more real and palpable than anything I've ever read previously.
And it's not just narrative and action; it's full of erudite discussion 
about the changing times and events.

Ed

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Empire - Steven Saylor Ed Cryer <ed@somewhere.in.the.uk> - 2025-08-22 18:43 +0100
  Re: Empire - Steven Saylor Rich Alderson <news@alderson.users.panix.com> - 2025-08-22 18:53 -0400
    Re: Empire - Steven Saylor Ed Cryer <ed@somewhere.in.the.uk> - 2025-08-23 18:57 +0100
      Re: Empire - Steven Saylor Rich Alderson <news@alderson.users.panix.com> - 2025-08-23 18:39 -0400
        Re: Empire - Steven Saylor Ed Cryer <ed@somewhere.in.the.uk> - 2025-08-24 14:14 +0100

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