Roma by Steven Saylor
copyright = 2007
pages = 555
source = purchase
date completed = 09/11/08
I thoroughly enjoyed this book. It was very readable and entertaining. I wasn't sure what to expect; I just knew it was a Roman epic spanning about 1000 years. There was sex, violence, war, mythology, politics--basically everything about Roman life. It didn't follow a specific family per se, but followed the passing down of a particular pendant of a winged phallus representing the god Fascinus to son and daughter through the years. This really makes me want to read some Livy or other works written during the rise of Rome.
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