To Forestall the Darkness: A Novel of Ancient Rome

To Forestall the Darkness: A Novel of Ancient Rome
定價:898
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  • 作者:TurnerVann
  • 出版社:Baker & Taylor Books
  • 出版日期:2013-09-05
  • 語言:英文
  • ISBN10:1492194980
  • ISBN13:9781492194989
  • 裝訂:平裝 / 14.6 x 21 x 3.2 cm / 普通級
 

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*To Forestall the Darkness: A Novel of Ancient Rome* is the story of a man who almost prevented the Dark Ages. Its setting is the twilight of Antiquity, when the traditions of Rome collided with the customs of the Germanic invaders.Decades of war in the Sixth Century devastated Italy. The plague depopulated it. Industry, agriculture, commerce and city life stopped. Darkness loomed. The Germanic Lombards held power and the people cowered under them, defeated and despondent.Through this desolation moves Titus Tribonius. Unlike others, he is not content merely to survive. Instead, he refuses to let slip away everything Rome had built. With some aiding him, some opposing, and some even betraying him, he struggles to restore what has been lost. He refuses to accept that the coming age will be dark.Amid the ruination you’ll meet characters who teem with life: => Theodelinda, Queen of the ruling Lombards, beautiful, vain, manipulative, and plotting to murder the King; => Bibula, the feisty and gregarious proprietress of a taberna; => Stola, Titus’s wife, whose excessive piety has constricted her life; => Celer, a youth of mixed Roman-Germanic stock; => Decius, a runaway slave from Corsica; => Ratold, the Lombard’s dark Master of Horse; => and Titus’ aunt, who dances with the shades of the dead.*To Forestall the Darkness* is a serious historical novel of Ancient Rome, like Steven Saylor’s *Roman Blood*, or Gary Jennings’ *Raptor*. The century in which it is set, the Sixth, was the pivotal century. Things could have gone either way and there was still a chance that the accumulated culture of the Roman people -- the skills, the technologies, the optimistic world-view -- would continue. Titus tries to make it so.Join Titus in the pages of *To Forestall the Darkness* and help him as he struggles to prevent the Dark Ages.~~~Library of Congress Control Number: 2013915924
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