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| From | Ed Cryer <ed@somewhere.in.the.uk> |
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| Subject | Empire - Steven Saylor |
| Date | Fri, 22 Aug 2025 18:43:05 +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
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