Including detailed descriptions of ancient medicine, religious practices, and gladiatorial combat, Shecter explores Roman society from the perspective of the oppressed. She sees herself as being sold to the highest bidder, but as her childhood friend, the Etruscan slave Tag, reminds her when she compares their fates, the restrictions on her freedom are nothing compared to his daily reality. Curious Lucia, who longs to discuss the tremors shaking the city with the great naturalist Pliny the Elder, faces a life of intellectual stagnation with her much older betrothed. Shecter ( Cleopatra’s Moon) returns to the ancient world, following star-crossed lovers in shadow of Mt.
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