Steven Saylor is certainly a gifted and well informed writer. Like any good writer of historical fiction, he has done his research in the primary sources as well as good secondary ones. This novel completes the trilogy with Roma and Empire preceding it. It begins where the second one leaves off, taking us from Marcus Aurelius in the latter half of the second century A.D. to the time of Constantine, in about 326 after the Council of Nicaea and before... Read more
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After all the wars are over, And all the battles won, After all the blood’s been spilt From here to kingdom come, Do you think it really matters In the larger scheme of things That this nation took the prize And that one got no rings? So what if one endured longer, Outlasting all their foes While another bit the dust And sooner tasted woes? All empires rise and fall Not a one endures forever Every nation has a... Read more
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