It is 56 BC, and Rome is becoming ever more corrupt. With several recent assassinations of Egyptian envoys, ambassador Dio calls on his old friend Gordianus the Finder for help.
In the year 63 BC, Cicero, having recently attained a coveted consulship, asks Gordianus the Finder to keep watch on a radical populist senator. Against his will, Gordianus finds himself drawn into a
Using scholarly, historical insight, and evocative storytelling that brings to life the glories of ancient Rome, Steven Saylor takes the reader from the bloody lines of clashing Roman armies to the ba
On a chill January evening in 56 B.C., two strange visitors to Rome—an Egyptian ambassador and a eunuch priest—seek out Gordianus the Finder whose specialty is solving murders, but the ambassador, a p
The story of a small town that rose to become the most powerful empire of the ancient world has been an inspiration to generations of people. Even after the collapse of the Roman Empire, many nations
