The Tribunes Curse Roberts John MaddoxPaperback
The Tribunes Curse Roberts John MaddoxPaperback In his extensive series featuring the detecting feats of Decius Caecilius Metellus the younger, set in the ancient Roman Empire, Roberts achieves a…
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The Tribunes Curse Roberts John MaddoxPaperback
In his extensive series featuring the detecting feats of Decius Caecilius Metellus the younger, set in the ancient Roman Empire, Roberts achieves a very believable modern feeling with his well-researched description of the stories' background. An entire city, versed in literature, music, and the other arts, ruled democratically, for its time, is thrown into panic by an enraged man's curse...Decius Caecilius Metellus is happy. This seventh episode, however, combines a familiar view of the demands office-seeking makes on a candidate with a situation that is impossibly bizarre to us today.
And Caesar's ongoing dreary war is far off in Gaul. The weather is beautiful and he is standing for office (literally; standing, in the Roman Forum soliciting votes) with a sure chance of winning. Decius is confident that another war looming over Rome, instigated by one Crassus against the