Suspecting their friend Jonathan is alive, Flavia, Nubia, and Lupus go to Rome for the Colosseum Games, facing wild beasts, criminals, conspirators, and gladiators, and where Nubia is called upon to make a terrible choice.
When Caesar is murdered, Fallon and her fellow gladiatrices lose their protector and, realizing that Cleopatra is now in grave danger, travel to Alexandria, Egypt, for her safety and theirs.
Now a driver in the chariot races, Nic is still a target of the Praetors because of the magical amulet he found, and they will do anything to get their hands on it--and meanwhile Atroxia is beginning to wake up.
Examines the public and private lives of early Christians in the context of ancient Rome from the death of Jesus to Emperor Constantine's legalization of Christianity in 354 C.E.
"Explores ancient Rome and how its citizens adapted the notion of imperial rule, invented the concepts of citizenship and nation, and made laws about those traditionally overlooked in history, including women, slaves, and criminals"--OCLC.
Chronicles the history of the Augustus family's ruling of ancient Rome, discussing Tiberius, the great general who ended up a bitter recluse, Caligula, the master of cruely and humiliation, Claudius, the near cripple whose underestimation probably led to his survival and accession to the emperorship and more.
