Given that my pile of "To Be Read" books is never less than 50, and I have a young family, I didn't get around to reading it until yesterday, when I got a chance while on holiday. I had the privilege of meeting Caroline Lawrence about two years ago, and I went and bought this, the first of her books, at once, which is something I nearly always do after meeting an author. I guess serious study of the Roman triumphs will just have to wait for a while.
There are 16 of these books so far, they've been made into a BBC series that's in at least its second year, and I liked this first one well enough to start the next one almost immediately.
The kids are very appealing, and there is just enough real violence to keep the stakes high. There is a cliffhanger at the end of each chapter (she calls them "scrolls"), and she smuggles in quite a lot of lore about Roman life in general and the Latin language in particular.
Aimed at 10-13 year olds, the series recounts the adventures of four children in 79AD, running around helping each other solve mysteries. So I immediately tried the first one, and it really was quite a treat. So I eagerly went there and found that she mentioned this excellent series by her old classmate in classics Caroline Lawrence, and highly recommended it.
I noted in her bio that she has a fairly entertaining blog titled A Don's Life, to which she adds something about once a week. Urn:oclc:839577075 Republisher_date 20160123075824 Republisher_operator Scandate 20160120095654 Scanner I've been reading a book on Roman triumphs by one of the best classicists writing today, Mary Beard, who holds the chair in classics at Cambridge. OL5718733W Page-progression lr Page_number_confidence 90.48 Pages 170 Ppi 500 Related-external-id urn:isbn:0761315829 Access-restricted-item true Addeddate 15:31:54.735107 Bookplateleaf 0004 Boxid IA1132301 Camera Canon EOS 5D Mark II City Connecticut Containerid S0022 Donor
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