Re: Empire - Steven Saylor

From	Rich Alderson <news@alderson.users.panix.com>
Newsgroups	humanities.classics
Subject	Re: Empire - Steven Saylor
Date	2025-08-23 18:39 -0400
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Ed Cryer <ed@somewhere.in.the.uk> writes:

> Rich Alderson wrote:
>> 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...

> Nice to hear from you, Rich. You founded this NG.
> It used to be well populated until recently. Do you think there's any 
> chance of rescuing it from its moribund state?

Hi, Ed, it's nice to be remembered!

I doubt that any newsgroup can be rescued.  It appears that the only non-
robotic users of Usenet are a few diehards who inhabit their favorite old
haunts out of sheer cussedness.

But it's nice to see occasional non-spam posts.

-- 
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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    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
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