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Publishers Weekly called I Am Rome "an engrossing narrative" with "action, oratory, and spectacle galore", writing that its frequent disregard for historical accuracy makes it comparable to Christian Jacq's novels about Ramses II. [3] Kirkus Reviews wrote that Posteguillo provides insight about the violence and hypocrisy of the Roman Republic's ...
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A book review is a form of literary criticism in which a book is merely described (summary review) or analyzed based on content, style, and merit. [ 1 ] A book review may be a primary source , an opinion piece, a summary review, or a scholarly view. [ 2 ]
Pages in category "Alternate history novels set in ancient Rome" The following 16 pages are in this category, out of 16 total. This list may not reflect recent changes .
The book received a share of negative criticism. It was accused of concentrating too much on the upper class and not drawing a detailed picture of Roman life and its change through the ages. [ 2 ] The only story in the book to receive true praise from reviewer Alma A. Hromic is the last chapter, To the Promised Land , which incidentally, does ...
The Sword of Attila: A Novel of the Last Years of Rome (2005) by Michael Curtis Ford; The Fall of Rome: A Novel of a World Lost (2007) by Michael Curtis Ford; Raptor (1993) by Gary Jennings is an historical novel set in the late 5th and early 6th centuries. It purports to be the memoirs of an Ostrogoth, Thorn, who has a secret.
Sidebottom has written another series set in ancient Rome and its empire called Throne of the Caesars.The new trilogy is set 30 years before the first Warrior of Rome book in the reigns of Severus Alexander and Maximinus Thrax (AD 235–38) beginning with the assassination of Alexander and ending with the deaths of Pupienus and Balbinus.
The Rise of Rome: The Making of the World's Greatest Empire is a book by the British author Anthony Everitt chronicling the rise of the Roman Republic and its evolution into the Roman Empire. It was written partly as a response to Edward Gibbon 's The Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire .