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Re: Empire - Steven Saylor

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Ed Cryer <ed@somewhere.in.the.uk> writes:

> 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.

_SPQR_ is on my TBR shelf.  The others are long in the past.

> 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.

You will probably enjoy the predecessor volume, entitled _Rome_, which does the
same ab urbe condita to the fall of the Republic.  _Empire_ is, needless to
say, also on the TBR shelf...

-- 
Rich Alderson					  news@alderson.users.panix.com
      Audendum est, et veritas investiganda; quam etiamsi non assequamur,
	  omnino tamen proprius, quam nunc sumus, ad eam perveniemus.
									--Galen

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Empire - Steven Saylor Ed Cryer <ed@somewhere.in.the.uk> - 2025-08-22 18:43 +0100
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