- Hardcover: 308 pages
- Publisher: St. Martin's Press; First edition (April 1995)
- Language English
- ISBN-10: 0312119127
- ISBN-13: 978-0312119126
- Product Dimensions: 23.6 x 16 x 2.3 cm
- Average Customer Review: 4.2 out of 5 stars See all reviews (10 customer reviews)
- Amazon Bestsellers Rank: 1,471,866 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)
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7 of 7 people found the following review helpful
Format:Paperback
Gordianus meets a figure from his past; an Alexandrian philosopher accompanied by a eunuch and disguised as a woman. From this bizarre starting point Saylor leads us though murder, conspiracy, disillusionment and deceit. By letting Gordianus keep his head with Clodia Saylor lets us keep ours as well; we are neither as bitter as the witty debauched poet Catullus nor as cynical as the brilliant Cicero, whose demolition of Clodia makes a fitting climax before the final twist. After being carried in Clodia's litter, after spending a night with a drunk Catullus in the Salacious Tavern, after pitying a weeping Trygonion at Clodia's party we can return to the bosom of Gordianus' unconventional family, where all is finally resolved in this most colourful of the Gordianus stories.
6 of 6 people found the following review helpful
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The review above is very harsh. For me this is one of the best, particularly for brilliant evocation of late-Republican life and society.
As to Cicero, yes of course the main parts of the speech are lifted from the original - but so what! The speech is compelling and Saylor makes it available outside the world of classical scholarship to thousands of people.
As to Cicero, yes of course the main parts of the speech are lifted from the original - but so what! The speech is compelling and Saylor makes it available outside the world of classical scholarship to thousands of people.
5 of 5 people found the following review helpful
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Another absorbing and brilliantly written whodunnit from Saylor's pen. This is a bit more straightforward than the preceding Catalina's Riddle, but still has plenty of twists, colourful characters, spellbinding oratory and dialogue and some horrific moments. Splendid stuff.
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Roman Detective
I Quite enjoyed this book...The story line
is very much like his last book.This is not to say this is a bad thing
Very pleasent light reading
is very much like his last book.This is not to say this is a bad thing
Very pleasent light reading
Published 15 days ago by Lilybet
The Fourth Story in the Sub Rosa Series
Steven Saylor's fascination with Ancient Rome began at an early age. A history graduate and former newspaper and magazine editor, he lives in Berkeley, California. Read more
Published on 7 Mar 2007 by J. Chippindale
Fourth Book in an Excellent Series
Steven Saylor's fascination with Ancient Rome began at an early age. A history graduate and former newspaper and magazine editor, he lives in Berkeley, California. Read more
Published on 21 Dec 2006 by J. Chippindale
A travesty of a book... and of a woman
I'm not a great fan of Steven Saylor and find his books very mixed, but this was one of the worst. Clodia Metelli, like Helen of Troy, has been much maligned, and usually by men. Read more
Published on 8 July 2006 by Roman Clodia
another fine book
Part four in the Roma sub rosa series, Gordianus is now back in Rome and hired to investigate the murder of an Egyptian ambassador by the infamous Clodia (wouldn't you just... Read more
Published on 1 Jan 2006 by Didier
Can be a bit slow at times
This is the 3rd of Saylor's Gordianus' stories I've read, and I found it patchy. It really only warms up about half way through. Read more
Published on 27 Jun 2002 by Bucket
Saylor has no peer. He does not need one.
What Steven Saylor does for fiction is remarkable, and to such an utterly high standard that it is difficult to consider it as fiction; rather the factual accounts of the... Read more
Published on 8 Mar 2001
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