On the other hand, readers interested in the period will find this book more lively than the McCullough sagas currently on the market. The KeyBenita Kane Jaro, Standard VersionHymns Ancient and Modern, REPRINT Die Bedeutung der materiellen Leiblichkeit in dem Weltplane Gottes. Moreover, Karo seems more interested in her characters' public squabbles than in their internal lives.

The protagonist's situation is also compelling, but after a while it becomes difficult to sympathize with the brutal and somewhat callous Caelius. Karo has fine credentials in writing about this period (her first novel, The Key, about the poet Catullus, involved many of the same people) and her brisk prose rings true. Baron Lytton, Kanes PromiseCheryl Pierson, The Runes of Evolution: How the Universe. Benita Kane Jaro When Ovid, the great poet of the Metamorphoses, is suddenly sent into exile by the Emperor Augustus, Ovid's young and beautiful wife is left to try to make sense of the destruction that has fallen on them, and discover the mystery at the heart of the Empire that has destroyed her life, and husband's. Not only Pompey and Caesar but all the major historical characters of the epoch are here: Cicero, Cato, Mark Antony and even Marcus Brutus (of ``et tu'' notoriety). Nurse at Golden WaterCarol Hughes, The KeyBenita Kane Jaro. See All from 3.00 New from 68.00 Collectible from 42.64 More Books Like This Add to Wishlist Betray the Night. He feels compelled to compile a report of the internecine struggle so far, although he does not know who will read it, for he is uncertain which of the warriors he hopes will win. Shop the latest titles by Benita Kane Jaro, and at Alibris UK including hardcovers, paperbacks, 1st editions. Marcus Caelius Rufus is a young Roman noble who at first sides with Caesar but becomes disenchanted after witnessing a massacre that he has commited.

This assiduously researched, intelligently written yet ultimately unsatisfying historical novel is set in 48 B.C., near the end of the long and bloody civil war between Pompey the Great and Julius Caesar.

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