Doctor Who: Combat Magicks
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How do you win a battle when the dead fight on? The TARDIS arrives in Gaul in 451AD, on the eve...
Household Gods - Private Devotion in Ancient Greece and Rome
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Daily religious devotion in the Greek and Roman worlds centered on the family and the home. Besides...
The Mythology of Plants: Botanical Lore from Ancient Greece and Rome
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This is a fascinating exploration of the role of the botanical in ancient Greek and Roman myth and...
The Christmas Gift? (A Barlow Sisters Novella)
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Rahn is counting sleeps until she gets to spend Christmas with her boyfriend Roman. But can she find...
Contemporary Romance Seasonal Young_Adult
David McK (3372 KP) rated The King in Rome (Warrior #1) in Books
May 28, 2023
Even more so - again, IMO - with those set during the time of the Roman Empire: I think we're approaching 20, now, of his full length Cato and Macro novels (edit: as of typing this, 22 novels).
I can't say much about TJ Andrews, other than I'm aware he has collaborated with Scarrow on a a few e-book novella's.
This is the latest in that collaboration, taking - as it's inspiration - the tale of Caratacus, the British warlord who defied the Empire before the time of Boudica, and who appeared in some of the earlier Eagle (aka Cato and Macro) novels as an antagonist. Eventually defeated by the Roman legions, Caratacus was spared by the Emperor Claudius to live out his life in the confines of Rome (and with Prefect Cato being name dropped when he mentions that in this novella), which is where this series of novellas picks up, as Caratacus is persuaded to tell his life story to a Roman historian who first encounters him at a banquet hosted by the Emperor Nero.
Told, therefore, from the 'other point of view' than the usual, I'm interested in seeing where this goes!
David McK (3372 KP) rated The Eagle's Prophecy (Eagle, #6) in Books
Jan 30, 2019
Early Middle Ages
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Major developments in the political, social, and religious history of western Europe from the...
Binge Thinking History
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A history show of the amateur armchair persuasion whose interest is derived from the Napoleonic idea...
Carving Classical Styles in Wood
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This book explains the principles of classical ornamentation and how the motifs evolved through the...