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 Post subject: Re: Rome and the Romans
PostPosted: Mon Oct 16, 2006 6:47 am 
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IMDb shows that Quo Vadis was filmed 8 times. I read both books in 1971, and since I haven't seen Quo Vadis the film(s), I can't remember anything about that book.

I picked up a used copy of AGRICOLA recently, and thought I would read it to give myself a break from suspense fiction. That's a bit later on the timeline, of course. <i></i>


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 Post subject: Re: Rome and the Romans
PostPosted: Mon Oct 16, 2006 11:29 am 
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I must defend my state's honor! Ben-Hur was writen by General Lew Wallace, not Henry, who was also Governor of New Mexico!!! *****
Before, you are wise; after, you are wise. In between you are otherwise.
Fravashi saying (from the formularies of Osho the Fool) <i></i>


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 Post subject: Re: Rome and the Romans
PostPosted: Mon Oct 16, 2006 2:27 pm 
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Stoutly done, Danlo
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 Post subject: Re: Rome and the Romans
PostPosted: Sat Nov 11, 2006 3:09 am 
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I have read another of Steven Saylor's Roman sub Rosa mysteries, The Judgement of Caesar, set in ancient Alexandria, when Julius caesar has to choose whether to support Cleopatra or her brother Ptolemy in the Egyptian Civil War -while he himself still wars with Pompey the Great in the Roman Civil War. Gordianus the Finder ends up right in the middle of the action, as he brings his very sick wife Bethesda back to Egypt, where she was born.

Another of these books, A Mist of Prophecies, is right near the top of my TBR pile. ******************************************************

Our lives are the songs that sing the universe into existence.~David Zindell
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 Post subject: Re: Rome and the Romans
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Finished up A Mist of Prophecies by Saylor. In a time when Rome was in turmoil, and when Caesar and Pompey were off fighting a civil war overseas, a woman called Cassandra, and who is said to be a prophetess, dies in the arms of Gordianus the Finder, claiming she had been poisoned. Seven of the wealthiest and most powerful women in Rome turn up to watch her cremation. One of them probably killed her - but which one and why?? An unusual and interesting look at the upper class women of ancient Rome and their behind-the-scnes jockeying for power while their men are all away at war. ******************************************************

Our lives are the songs that sing the universe into existence.~David Zindell
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