“Whether well or not, I do not know. But know that you have cut off your right hand with your left. [A Roman Senator to Valentinian III after the latter had murdered the general Aetius.]” MurderAssassinationRoman EmpireLate Antiquity Book:The Fragmentary History of Priscus: Attila, the Huns and the Roman Empire, AD 430-476 Source: The Fragmentary History of Priscus: Attila, the Huns and the Roman Empire, AD 430-476
“The women of Republican times are silent. Rarely calling for comment in the history books, they are named on tombstones, flit in arrogant beauty through poetry, or appear even as monsters of iniquity in a court of law. Yet they themselves do not speak and they have left no literature of any sort of their own. In this book, however, Roman women live and love and hate anything but silently. (author's note To the Reader in 'A Roman Death'.)” WomenHistoryThrillerRomeMystery NovelCaesarCiceroHistorical ThrillerLate Antiquity Author:Joan O'Hagan