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de Steven Saylor (Author) "ACCORDING to Cato ..." I said, and paused, squinting at the scroll ..." En savoir plus
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Saylor ( Arms of Nemesis ) has written another gripping and entertaining historical whodunit. Narrator Gordianus, disillusioned by the corruption of Rome circa 63 B.C., has fled the city with his family to live on a farm in the Etruscan countryside. But this bucolic life is disrupted by the machinations and murderous plots of two politicians: Roman consul Cicero, Gordianus's longtime patron; and populist senator Catalina, Cicero's political rival and a candidate to replace him in the annual elections for consul. Claiming that Catalina plans an uprising if he loses the race, Cicero asks Gordianus to keep a watchful eye on the radical. Although he distrusts both men, Gordianus is forced into the center of the power struggle when his six-year-old daughter Diana finds a headless corpse in their stable. Shrewdly depicting deadly political maneuverings, this addictive mystery also displays the author's firm grasp of history and human character.
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Gordianus the Finder, Saylor's world-weary sleuth, strives to keep aloof from the complex politics of republican Rome. After years of investigative work for Cicero, Crassus, and others, Gordianus has become a gentleman farmer in Etruria, where he contends with more commonplace problems like drought and conniving neighbors. Suddenly Gordianus finds himself pulled back into Roman politics, and headless bodies begin to turn up on his farm. Saylor ( Arms of Nemesis , St. Martin's, 1992) carefully plots this novel and accurately depicts Roman society; his attentive study of Roman history and culture is evident throughout. The characters are believable and well delineated. Some minor criticisms: Saylor does not always take care to present historical data naturally, and several overlong conversations on Roman politics interrupt the flow of the story and are in fact historical minilectures directed at the reader. Nevertheless, this is recommended for general collections.
- James F. DeRoche, Alexandria, Va.
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4.0étoiles sur 5 Artistry of words and intellectual scholarship, Fév 4 2004
Par Nathan Crabtree "singer" (Hickory, NC United States) - Voir tous mes commentaires
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This review is from: Catilina's Riddle (Mass Market Paperback)
Saylor gives us another powerful novel in Catilina's Riddle. I took Latin in high school and we studied the Catilinarian conspiracy. I had to memorize the first part of one of the speeches in the book: "Quo usque tandem abutere Catilina patientia nostra..."! I love how Saylor brings these great historical figures to life with his descriptive writing. With each novel in the series we also learn more about and grow to like Gordianus and his family. This novel shows artistry of words and intellectual scholarship together. That combination would seem to be hard to pull off, but Saylor does it well. Like other reviewers, I got a little bogged down at times with the intellectual scholarship, but it's not difficult to plug through. It's worth it to experience the action and revelation at the end. I am an even greater fan now and can't wait to start The Venus Throw.
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3.0étoiles sur 5 Gordianus goes gay!, Juil 31 2003
Par krebsman (New York, NY United States) - Voir tous mes commentaires
This review is from: Catilina's Riddle (Mass Market Paperback)
I'm enjoying this series a lot. They make great airplane books. There were many aspects of CATALINA'S RIDDLE that I really enjoyed, like the details of Roman life and the rather titillating scene wherein our hero is seduced by another man. The characters of Gordianus and his family became much deeper in this volume. However, the parts that dealt with the Cataline conspiracy were dull, dull, dull in comparison to the parts dealing with Gordianus, his family, and his neighbors. There was too much history and not enough mystery. The Cataline background overwhelmed this installment of Saylor's Sub Rosa series. I enjoyed this book's humor and irony, but it was not as consistently entertaining as the previous volumes.
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3.0étoiles sur 5 A Supplement to the Catilinarian Conspiracy, Janv. 24 2003
Par Theodore J. Freeman "sounio" (Westtown, PA USA) - Voir tous mes commentaires
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This review is from: Catilina's Riddle (Mass Market Paperback)
This is the second year I have used Catilina's Riddle in my Latin III class. As we translate Cicero and Sallust, this book adds a little levity. Although it's a bit longer than I would like, it's an easy read. Saylor sheds some personality on Cicero, Catiline, and other historical characters in a way that Sallust could not. He pulls translations almost verbatim out of Cicero's "In Catilinam." Students are able to relate more closely to the plight of Catiline. The work even lends itself to some lessons in historiography (i.e., since historians base their perceptions of Catiline primarily on the works of Cicero and Sallust, how do we know what the "real" Catiline was like?). The plot of Gordianus and his misgivings about his inherited farm are secondary, but they keep the story moving along.
I find Saylor's work to lack the passion and insight that some other historical fiction writers seem to conjure. Mary Renault's works, for instance, stand alone. However, I had several students who simply could not put the book down. Anything that inspires a 15-year old to read like that deserves applaud.
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5.0étoiles sur 5 This IS It !
This is the book that got me hooked on Saylor's Roma Sub Rosa series. After only one chapter I ordered Roman Blood so I could catch up. Read more
Publié le Nov. 22 2002 par elainaxyz

5.0étoiles sur 5 Very good, although not a mystery strictu sensu.
Marxist theorethician Ernest Mandel, who loved detective novels, and wrote a study on them (Delightful Murder) said that the detective novel, dealing as it does with the question... Read more
Publié le Nov. 5 2002 par C. E. R. Mendonça

5.0étoiles sur 5 One of my favorites
Steven Saylor is currently one of my favorite authors and Catilina's Riddle is, I think, the best of the whole Sub Rosa series. Read more
Publié le Sep 3 2002 par john brown

3.0étoiles sur 5 Drags more than some others in the series
17 years have passed between the story in this novel and "Roman Blood". Gordianus again is involved with Cicero and yet very little interaction occurs between the great... Read more
Publié le Aoû 12 2002 par TammyJo Eckhart

3.0étoiles sur 5 Not as good as the first 2
I thought this book was OK, not too great, but not too bad either. I enjoyed reading about the politics in Rome, since I have read all of Colleen McCullough's Roman books and... Read more
Publié le Juil 3 2002

5.0étoiles sur 5 Another Great Novel of Ancient Rome by Saylor
I was lucky enough to find Saylor's works through Amazon.com and I have to say that I have never read a series of novels so entertaining and literate. Read more
Publié le Jui 10 2002 par Jack M. Walter

3.0étoiles sur 5 well-written, intriguing historical elements, but ...
Firstly, if you haven't read any of Steven Saylor's mystery series set in ancient Rome then go directly to the customer reviews for 'Roman Blood'. Read more
Publié le Fév 26 2002 par lazza

5.0étoiles sur 5 Steven Saylor's Gordianus gets better and better!
I am reading Saylor's Sub Rosa series in sequence, and this third novel is so far the most ambitious. Read more
Publié le Nov. 8 2001 par Anne-Elisabeth Moutet

5.0étoiles sur 5 One of the Best in a Stellar Series
O.k., I admit it. Ever since I read ROMAN BLOOD, I've been a confirmed Gordianus-aholic. But I gotta tell you, this is one of the best yet. Read more
Publié le Juil 27 2001 par E. Rothstein

3.0étoiles sur 5 Politics in Ancient Rome
This new novel by Steven Saylor should really not be fitted under the umbrella of "mystery". Read more
Publié le Mai 5 2001 par Karina A. Suarez

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