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That's a lot more Entertaining than mine... No, it was set in in the 1st c. shortly after the Events. The Nubian guy (whose dad switched from the Ptolemys to the Romans after they took over) joined the Roman cavalry got transferred to training Gauls to do cavalry drill. Caught the attention of Caligula who put him in Praetorians where after a bit of hassle (not because he was black but because he was new) he became, under Claudius, primus Pilus and served in the Britain campaign. Wounded in action and seconded to intelligence work. And that's where the story really starts. After trouble on behalf of Chrestus, Claudius wanted to find out the facts about these Christians and their "Crucified sage" so he's packed off to the Roman east where at a camp of the 10th Fretensis he watched the troops exercising and was astonished to see a squadron of Sarmatian cataphracts take out an entire battalion of practice dummies. He's even more astonished when they turn out to be all female (the cataphracts, not the dunmmies)
After training with them and swapping some cavalry tricks ("I could never get the hang of charging the target. I came off every time. "You have to lean back to deliver the hit." explained Amyssia. "You have to believe that you can do it.") he dines with them and talks to the commander (Amyssia) about his mission. She's intrigued, because up in Edessa, some Christians showed her the Shroud that the disciples had taken there (yep, the theory of the Edessa shroud getting to France by way of Byzantium and the Templars was popular at the time) So they set off for Judea tracing the gospels (which they pick up separately in various libraries and work it all out [the Boring bit]) before getting to Jerusalem .. and so on ...It's pretty dull reading.
Female heavy cavalry, what a delicious idea. I don't suppose there were any IRL?
Does your plot include Zoroastrianism? A lot of attention gets paid to Saul/Paul's tailoring of jewish christianity to appeal to pagans, as described in the NT. But I agree with those who think that Zoroastrianism also figured in the mix, although the NT is entirely silent about this.
I'd certainly want read it. " A philosophical Thriller" (Bookbuyer) "Sartre meets Mike Hammer" (Booklist)
"A book of the kind upon which cults are based", (Beekeepers' monthly review)
Hey, I'll come to you when I need a blurb for the dustjacket. On the back will be the picture of me in some rustic, rural setting with my spaniel in the background, puffing thoughtfully on my pipe and staring off into some gloriously imaginative future. Below that will be all the...
"I laughed, I cried, it became a part of me."
"A roller coaster of emotions, it grabbed me with its mysterious and intriguing beginning, and wouldn't let go until its shattering climax."
stuff....and your blurb will be in there among them.
Female heavy cavalry, what a delicious idea. I don't suppose there were any IRL?
Does your plot include Zoroastrianism? A lot of attention gets paid to Saul/Paul's tailoring of jewish Christianity to appeal to pagans, as described in the NT. But I agree with those who think that Zoroastrianism also figured in the mix, although the NT is entirely silent about this.
No. Just a remark of the Susa gate of the temple signifying how they loved Persia for freeing them in Babylon. The main point is being in Jerusalem for the feast of tabernacles - Amyssia (who has chummed up with a perfume maker in the south of the city when she went into the court of the woman and almost was arrested when she marched in and they thought it was a man in disguise. "I pressed his hand to my bosom. and he ran like a hare" she laughed,) has Marsyas build the tabernacle on the old lady's roof - they see a Hoshana procession on its' way to the Temple, And "It was straight out of the Gospels" he thinks.
And I think I'm off topic. I though I was in 'Chat about anything'.
By coincidence, I am currently reading Steven Saylor's "The Throne of Caesar ", which is the 15th novel in his Roma Sub Rosa series featuring Gordiamus The Finder as a detective in ancient Rome. I obviously love the series since I have read them all. I have also read all 20 of Lindsey Davis' similar series featuring her Roman detective Marcus Didius Falco. (Ms. Davis has ended that series and started a new one featuring Falco's daughter as a detective....haven't read any of those yet.)
Both series are tremendously entertaining ways to learn more about the Roman empire, though I would rank Saylor's series as the superior of the two.
The Falco series went to 20 novels? I remember reading many of them years ago, and they were pretty good. But there were only 6 or 7 back then. I have also read many of the Saylor books, and liked them a# well.
If you want to learn about Rome through novelized fiction, try Colleen Mccullough’s Masters of Rome series. Excellent series spanning the rise of Maruous, through Sulla, and ultimately Julius and Augustus Caesar.
The Falco series went to 20 novels? I remember reading many of them years ago, and they were pretty good. But there were only 6 or 7 back then. I have also read many of the Saylor books, and liked them a# well.
If you want to learn about Rome through novelized fiction, try Colleen Mccullough’s Masters of Rome series. Excellent series spanning the rise of Maruous, through Sulla, and ultimately Julius and Augustus Caesar.
The Falco series went to 20 novels? I remember reading many of them years ago, and they were pretty good. But there were only 6 or 7 back then. I have also read many of the Saylor books, and liked them a# well.
If you want to learn about Rome through novelized fiction, try Colleen Mccullough’s Masters of Rome series. Excellent series spanning the rise of Maruous, through Sulla, and ultimately Julius and Augustus Caesar.
The Falco series went to 20 novels? I remember reading many of them years ago, and they were pretty good. But there were only 6 or 7 back then. I have also read many of the Saylor books, and liked them a# well.
If you want to learn about Rome through novelized fiction, try Colleen Mccullough’s Masters of Rome series. Excellent series spanning the rise of Maruous, through Sulla, and ultimately Julius and Augustus Caesar.
I liked those, to, and the one with an amateur detective who did mosaics in Roman Britain.
Hey, I'll come to you when I need a blurb for the dustjacket. On the back will be the picture of me in some rustic, rural setting with my spaniel in the background, puffing thoughtfully on my pipe and staring off into some gloriously imaginative future. Below that will be all the...
"I laughed, I cried, it became a part of me."
"A roller coaster of emotions, it grabbed me with its mysterious and intriguing beginning, and wouldn't let go until its shattering climax."
stuff....and your blurb will be in there among them.
I can visualise it already - Mono photo, please...I already know the blurb for mine "Once i had put it down, I could not pick it up again".
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Originally Posted by jacqueg
Female heavy cavalry, what a delicious idea. I don't suppose there were any IRL?
Does your plot include Zoroastrianism? A lot of attention gets paid to Saul/Paul's tailoring of jewish christianity to appeal to pagans, as described in the NT. But I agree with those who think that Zoroastrianism also figured in the mix, although the NT is entirely silent about this.
Sorry, what's IRL?
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Originally Posted by HeelaMonster
I don't want to drift off topic, but as long as we're sharing book series.....
MATTHEW SHARDLAKE is a hunchbacked lawyer during the reign of Henry VIII, and very good at solving mysteries. Authored by CJ Sansom.....
Nor do I...I can hear the Approaching Vengeful Tread of a Mod but I liked the series of a Mystery solver under Elizabet 1 and then James.
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No, it was set in in the 1st c. shortly after the Events. The Nubian guy (whose dad switched from the Ptolemys to the Romans after they took over) joined the Roman cavalry got transferred to training Gauls to do cavalry drill. Caught the attention of Caligula who put him in Praetorians where after a bit of hassle (not because he was black but because he was new) he became, under Claudius, primus Pilus and served in the Britain campaign. Wounded in action and seconded to intelligence work. And that's where the story really starts. After trouble on behalf of Chrestus, Claudius wanted to find out the facts about these Christians and their "Crucified sage" so he's packed off to the Roman east where at a camp of the 10th Fretensis he watched the troops exercising and was astonished to see a squadron of Sarmatian cataphracts take out an entire battalion of practice dummies. He's even more astonished when they turn out to be all female (the cataphracts, not the dunmmies)
but I liked the series of a Mystery solver under Elizabet 1 and then James.
