Ashes I: A Novel of the Poor of Ancient Rome (Paperback) (ISBN-13: 9781546704171)

It is ancient, late-Republican Rome, and, denied the freedom he was promised, successful merchant-slave, Ariston, sets fire to his master's Palatine mansion, rescues a slave-girl, Felicia, from crucifixion, and both escape to the distant Umbrian mountains where they marry and raise a family, setting in play an odyssey that leads from the cruel streets of the slums of Rome to chariot races in the Circus Maximus, from bloody, no-holds-barred street boxing to the pursuit of fugitive slaves across the length and breadth of Italia, from the great landed estates of the Roman countryside to the law courts of the Roman Forum.

Author: Theodore Irvin Silar
ISBN-10: 1546704175
ISBN-13: 9781546704171
Publisher: Createspace Independent Publishing Platform
Language: English
Published: 06/26/2017
Pages: 156
Format: Paperback
Weight: 0.52lbs
Size: 9.02h x 5.98w x 0.36d