Zivah and Dineas share nothing but loathing for the empire and a deep-seated wish to be useful again. Though he’s now escaped from the emperor’s dungeons, he cannot outrun the lingering effects of his trauma.
A broken warrior… Dineas grew up fighting to free his people from the Amparan empire, but capture and torture have left him shattered. Now she’s doomed to a slow, solitary death, cut off from everyone she loves. But when she’s conscripted to treat a battalion of grievously ill soldiers, Zivah contracts the deadly rose plague.
Wells, Trinity University, San Antonio “In reading Anthony Barrett’s biography of Livia, I not only learned about this remarkable woman, but also gained a meaningful appreciation of life and society in her time.” -Howard Alper, President, The Royal Society of Canada “First-rate.” -Mary Beard, Times Literary SupplementĪ terminally ill healer… Zivah was once her village’s most promising young healer, mastering potions that altered both body and mind. “An excellent biography of Livia-as appealing to the general reader as it is satisfying to the scholar.” -Colin M. In this biography of Livia, the first in English, Anthony Barrett sets aside the portrait of a cunning and sinister schemer to reveal Livia as a complex figure whose enduring political influence helped shape Roman government long after her death. Livia-wife of the first Roman emperor, Caesar Augustus, and mother of the second, Tiberius-wielded extraordinary power at the center of Roman politics. The author of Rome Is Burning separates fact from fiction as he examines the life of an ancient Roman figure made famous in the TV miniseries I Claudius. The Daughters Of Palatine Hill by Phyllis T. Can they survive Rome's deadly intrigues, or will they be swept away by the perilous currents of the world's most powerful empire? For astute Livia, this means unwavering fidelity to her all-powerful husband for sensual Julia, surrender to an arranged marriage and denial of her craving for love and the pleasures of the flesh for orphaned Selene, choosing between loyalty to her family's killers and her wish for revenge. Always suppressing their own desires for the good of Rome, each must fulfill her role. Bound together by kinship and spilled blood, these three women-Livia, Selene, and Julia-navigate the dangerous world of Rome's ruling elite, their every move a political strategy, their most intimate decisions in the emperor's hands. Under the watchful eye of Augustus's wife, Livia, Selene struggles to accept her new home among her parents' enemies. To his only child, Julia, he brings an unlikely companion-Selene, the daughter of the conquered Egyptian queen and her lover. Two years after Emperor Augustus's bloody defeat of Mark Antony and Cleopatra, he triumphantly returns to Rome.
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