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Avg. Customer Rating: 3.5 / 5.0
A brilliant piece of story telling and history ! This is a superb book. I have liked all of Steven Saylor's Roman detective series, but if you have a real interest in Roman history then "Roma" is even better. Steven Saylor makes the history of the city come alive through a series of sections spanning a thousand years of events. Every section is interesting, with the fictional characters interwoven imaginatively first with the early stories of Roman legend and then the later facts of Roman history ; and the link which holds all together is expertly done,... more info
you must read this? Nearly finished this massive book now.
Quite simply it is fantastic.
Anyone with any interest in Rome or history should read this book.
Have spent several hours verifying the "facts", it is accurate, but it does not read like a history book.
Cannot recommend enough.
Not as good as Rutherford A bit like Edward Rutherford's books such as Sarum. They get very formulaic but are quite captivating. This wasn't, I'm afraid to say. Historical fiction and storytelling in general can be much better than this book.
A mixed bag This is a big book in every way: in 663 pages Steven Saylor covers some 1000 years of Roman history from hypothetical beginnings c.1000 B.C. to Caesar Augustus (1 B.C.). In eleven sections, mostly separated by some 50 years the first part of the book follows the evolution of two families, the Potitii and the Pinarii, bearing contrasted characteristics and how their destinies were shaped by each successive stage of Roman history. An offspring of both families arrives in section 6 (followed by his... more info
