It was a heady, exhilarating time. In theory, we had marched down the Appian Way with the cohort of the Urban Guard to put down the revolt at Misene, but I don’t know of a single man who believed that was our true task; certainly none did by the time we’d reached the outskirts of the city. I don’...
Already – already – the stench of burning flesh pierced the smoke and the screaming panic of men, women, children, mules, pigs, dogs, rats sliced the air. It was Gaul again, only greater. Hannah wiped the grime from her face and considered how it would feel to strangle Faustinos, the Iberian wate...
It bathed with fainter light the twelve priests of the Hebrew god who paced behind him in their costly silks, with tablets of onyx and gold upon their breasts and crowns of barely smaller wealth upon their heads. It reached only faintly the first few layers of the vast crowd that surged and billo...
IS it war? It sounds like war.’ Caught too far from the tall, narrow window, Kleopatra tugged at Hypatia’s elbow, trying to see past her to the shouting men, the clashing weapons, the screaming, stamping horses that were causing such mayhem around the Temple below. She was used to people who step...