The scene is Rome in the troublesome year 24 B.C. Emperor Augustus is in ill health and the city is seething with intrigue. There is speculation about the succession, uncertainty in the capital and unrest on the frontiers. The question of an heir is acute. Augustus has only one child, a daughter, Julia. She is married to Marcellus, marking the young man with the Emperor's favour, but some disagree with the match. Powerful rivals engineer crisis and conspiracy. These events are seen through the eyes of Curtius Rufus, ex-centurion, gambler, and a man dissatisfied with life. He comes to the attention of Augustus's lieutenant, Marcus Agrippa, who leads Curtius into the puzzling affair of the legate's daughter, kidnapped, it appears, by pirates and held in captivity in the African desert.
| ISBN | 0753818957 | | Pages | 296 | | ISBN13 | 9780753818954
(What's this?) | | Weight (grammes) | 256 | | Publisher | Orion Publishing Co | | Published in | London | | Imprint | Phoenix (an Imprint of The Orion Publishing Group Ltd ) | | Height (mm) | 198 | | Format | Paperback | | Width (mm) | 129 | | Publication date | 06 Oct 2005 | | Spine width (mm) | 21 | | DEWEY | 823.914 | | Academic level | General | | DEWEY edition | DC22 | | Interest age | From 16 To 99 |
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