pickAncient coliseum battleground, sacrifice, early Christians, politics, and cruel villains are written in the background where two slaves fall in love and are heinously separated. This book truly has it all. I intend to read all of Kate Quinn. TW - coliseum fights and torture are graphic #ancientRome #jubilee #FoodandLit @Texreader @Catsandbooks
so-soThis was an ok historical fiction on the early life of the wife of Caesar Augustus. #literarycrew
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pickIt is done! Or at least as done as it's going to be from me. I picked up this collection for Euripedes' Medea, was happy to get Sophocles' Antigone in the bargain, and a bonus second Medea by Seneca. Euripides' Bakkhai is a wild time, The Oresteia is pretty familiar ground given the link up to Illiad characters. I wish there was more of Aeschylus' Prometheus Bound, but what there is extant of it is good. 1/?
panRoman Blood follows Gordianus, a private eye in the Roman Republic, working on murder case. While the premise sounded intriguing, the book as a whole was a disappointment for me. It was slow, and there were lots of chapters that did nothing to further the plot. Many historical details were weaved into the story, but these couldn't save it for me personally, and I lost interest in both the whodunit part and the characters' fates.
panI'm not entirely sure why I stuck with this one to the end, because I found it really boring. I just couldn't retain the information. I think it's the travelogue style, rather than any kind of focus on history. Just bits of information thrown in a blender as an excuse to write off travel to Italy on one's taxes, one suspects, cynically.
so-soThe narrator of this edition has a very nice voice - relaxing but not sleep inducing. I don‘t want to hold this book to modern expectations- it‘s two hundred years old. I appreciated learning more about important female figures such as Xenobia, even if the writing was condescending. I think the author had the empire last longer in his history than it actually did.
2/5 stars listen rather than read this for a classic historical work
