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| From | Rich Alderson <news@alderson.users.panix.com> |
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| Subject | Re: Empire - Steven Saylor |
| Date | 22 Aug 2025 18:53:22 -0400 |
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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...
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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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