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Terra Incognita
- A Novel of the Roman Empire
- By: Ruth Downie
- Narrated by: Simon Vance
- Length: 11 hrs and 33 mins
- Unabridged
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The edge of the Roman Empire is a volatile place; the tribes of the North dwell near its borders. These hinterlands are the homeland of Gaius Petreius Ruso's slave, Tilla, who has scores of her own to settle there: Her tribespeople, under the leadership of the mysterious Stag Man, are fomenting a rebellion, and her former lover is implicated in the murder of a soldier. Ruso, once again pulled into a murder investigation, is appalled to find that Tilla is still spending time with the prime suspect.
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Great book, fabulous reader
- By Lucy on 05-10-08
- Terra Incognita
- A Novel of the Roman Empire
- By: Ruth Downie
- Narrated by: Simon Vance
Better than the first!
Reviewed: 02-20-24
Well written and the mildly combative relationship between Russo and Tilla is adorable. As someone who has read or listened to a number of books in this sub-genre of Mystery Ruth Downie does a wonderful job
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The Letters of Pliny the Younger
- By: John B. Firth - translator, Pliny
- Narrated by: Leighton Pugh
- Length: 12 hrs and 40 mins
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Pliny the Younger (61 CE-c. 113 CE) was a well-connected official in the Rome of the first century, and it is through his ten Books of Letters that we have one of the liveliest and most informal pictures of the period. As a lawyer and magistrate, he rose through the senate to become consul in AD 100 and therefore corresponded with leading figures including the historian Tacitus, the biographer Suetonius, the philosophers Artemidorus and Euphrates the Stoic and, most notably, Emperor Trajan.
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Very well done...
- By Mohad Cheridi on 07-03-17
- The Letters of Pliny the Younger
- By: John B. Firth - translator, Pliny
- Narrated by: Leighton Pugh
Everything from the fascinating to the mundane
Reviewed: 10-27-23
A few of the letters are a back and forth between Pliny and the Emperor Trajan. Two of the letters to Tacitus contain the description of the eruption of Vesuvius.
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