![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() Solidly anchored in fact and vividly imagined, this long book moves at a sprightly clip and features some vibrant personages. and of Julius and Augustus Caesar as the Republic ebbs into Empire. Skipping over several generations at a time, Saylor puts the Potitii family descendants at the side of Romulus and Remus at the official founding of the city of Scipio Africanus during the Punic Wars of the legendary reformers Tiberius and Gaius Gracchus during the turbulent second-century B.C. ) breaks out on an epic scale in this sprawling novel tracing Rome's extraordinary development over five centuries, as seen through the eyes of succeeding generations of one of its founding families. Author of the critically acclaimed Roma Sub Rosa series of historical mysteries, Saylor ( The Judgment of Caesar ![]()
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