![]() ![]() Augustus and his wife Livia make a brief appearance, Tiberius retreats to his island, and the evil Sejanus throws a mild scare into the family. Lucius, we hardly knew ye! And from what little we do know, Lucius seems to be a pleasant, but dull, man. The first chapter is the briefest at 68 pages and seems to exist solely for the purpose of filling in a bit of Roman back story before Lucius, the main character and his family are banished to Alexandria, Egypt. He mostly succeeds.Įach “chapter” of the book covers a different Pinarii generation and varies in the quality of the story telling and character development. ![]() Saylor sets himself a Herculean task to cover the major events and people of the times in an entertaining and accessible way using a formula perfected by James A. Empire picks up at the end of Augustus’ reign and concludes at the end of Hadrian’s, covering about 130 years and four generations of Pinarii. ![]() In the earlier book, we followed the aristocratic family from the founding of Rome through the Republican years. “Empire: The Novel of Imperial Rome” by Steven SaylorĮmpire:The Novel of Imperial Romecontinues the story of the Pinarius family chronicled in Steven Saylor’s earlier novel Roma: The Novel of Ancient Rome. ![]()
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