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Re: Empire - Steven Saylor

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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?

Ed

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