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. 'The most reliably entertaining and well-researched novels about the ancient world Steven Saylor's tales of the Roman proto-detective Gordianus the Finder.“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. this is entertainment of the first order.' Washington Post 'Readers will find his work wonderfully (and gracefully) researched. 'With the scalpel-like deftness of a Hollywood director, Saylor puts his finger on the very essence of Roman history.' Times Literary Supplement 'Saylor's scholarship is breathtaking and his writing enthrals' Ruth Rendell 'Saylor expertly weaves the true history of Rome with the lives and loves of its fictional citizens.' Daily Express
Roma is Saylor's finest achievement, an epic in the truest sense of the word. Beginning with the prehistory days when Roma was a way station among seven hills for traders and merchants and the founding of the city itself by Romulus and Remus, critically acclaimed historical novelist Steven Saylor tells the epic saga of a city and its people, its rise to prominence among the city-states of the area, and, ultimately, dominance over the entire ancient Western world.įrom the tragedy of Coriolanus, to the Punic Wars and the invasion by Hannibal, the triumph and murder of Julius Caesar, and the rise and decline of the Roman Republic and the beginnings of Imperial Rome, Saylor's breathtaking novel brings to vivid life the most famous city of the ancient world. Roma is the story of the ancient city of Rome, from its mythic beginnings as a campsite along a trade route to its emergence as the centre of the most extensive, powerful empire in the ancient world.
'A compelling storyteller, with a striking talent for historical reconstruction' Mary BeardĪ epic novel of ancient Rome i n the tradition of Edward Rutherford and James Michener.
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