An annotated edition of Shakespeare's tragedy in which Titus Andronicus, Rome's noble soldier of many years, takes violent revenge upon the men who raped his daughter and killed his sons, and calls for curses upon Rome itself; with detailed notes, scene-by-scene plot summaries, an introduction to Shakespeare's language, and more.
Photographs, illustrations, maps, and text describe Roman forts, how and why they were built, life inside of a Roman fort and methods of defending it, Roman roads, Roman religion and government, and what happened to Roman forts.
Jonathan and his friends are called to Rome by the emperor in the winter of 80 A.D. to find the new Prometheus believed to have brought an epidemic to the city, but Jonathan, obsessed with reuniting his parents, makes some unwise--and life-threatening--choices.