This is very intelligent and well-researched Roman historical fiction, populated with very strong female lead characters (including a scene-stealing rendition of Livia, the strong-willed wife of Octavian). Hello Select your address Kindle Store Hello, Sign in. Pomponia herself harbors secrets that threaten to become scandals as the book’s lean, fast-paced plot advances. Gotteslob 463 noten, Virgin media v box hd ethernet Md298zp/a specs, Programma afrika cup. .jp: The Last Vestal Virgin (English Edition) eBook : Carey, Lorraine: Kindle Store. Out of the Ashes, Jonathans Locket, and The Last Vestal Virgin. While Pomponia is navigating these treacherous currents, MacLeod gives readers a very rich and complicated picture of what the day-to-day life of the Vestal Virgins was like, the institutional life of the order, with older priestesses recalling sisters and scandals long since gone. Ariadne Staples book examines how women in Rome were perceived both by themselves and by men through womens participation in Roman religion, as Roman. Lorraine Carey is a veteran childrens reading specialist, teacher, and International. The wars of Marius, Sulla, and Julius Caesar, the power-struggles of the triumvirs, the battles between political climber Octavian and his military rivals Antony and Cleopatra. The world of the Vestal Virgins, the revered priestess sorority of ancient Rome, is at the center of Brides of Rome, the first volume in Debra May Macleod’s The Vesta Shadows series, in which veteran thirty-year Vestal Pomponia has an up-close vantage point for the most tumultuous political upheavals in the city’s history. Brides of Rome (The Vesta Shadows, Book 1)
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