✍ Scribed by Steven Saylor
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"Saylor rivals Robert Graves in his knack for making the classical world come alive." --(ortland) Oregonian
"Engrossing...Ironic and satisfying." -- San Francisco Chronicle
The third in Saylor's Roma Sub Rosa novels featuring Gordianus the Finder. Gordianus, disillusioned by the corruption of Rome circa 63 B.C., has fled the city with his family to live on a farm in the Etruscan countryside. But this bucolic life is disrupted by the machinations and murderous plots of two politicians: Roman consul Cicero, Gordianus's longtime patron, and populist senator Catilina, Cicero's political rival and a candidate to replace him in the annual elections for consul. Claiming that Catilina plans an uprising if he loses the race, Cicero asks Gordianus to keep a watchful eye on the radical. Although he distrusts both men, Gordianus is forced into the center of the power struggle when his six-year-old daughter Diana...
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The year is 63 BC, and Gordianus the Finder unexpectedly achieves the dream of every Roman - a farm in the Etruscan countryside. Vowing to leave behind the corruption and intrigue of Rome, he abandons the city, taking his family with him. Genre : Fiction.History Formats : EPUB
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Once cuentos escritos con un lenguaje descarnado y directo, propio de la crónica periodística, que tienen la virtud de conmocionar, sorprender y emocionar al lector, que halla enormemente cercanas estas historias que transcurren entre Nicaragua y Alemania, entre los años de la revolución sandinista