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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;lehmansterms, post: 2870599, member: 80804&quot;]I&#039;m surprised no one has recommended the excellent work of Steven Saylor yet. He has written a whole series of &quot;detective adventures&quot; starring his prototypical sleuth &quot;Gordianus the Finder&quot;. Detectives and their work either hadn&#039;t been thought of in Late Republican/Early Imperial Rome, or no record of it survives, so this is a fairly original concept which looks on the &quot;Roman experience&quot; from a novel point of view. Gordianus is a very engaging character whom the author ages through a series of about a dozen books from an intelligent but somewhat clueless young man to a well-known and respected elder counselor who helps provide facts to a wide range of famous Romans like Cicero who figures as a major character appearing in many of the books. He has also written a series in engaging style with his pervading personal grasp of the history which tells the story of Rome from the time that it was a crossroads on the salt road running east-west and the metal road running north and south through the early Imperial period. He manages to bring to plausible life the origins of the legendary feats and somewhat improbable sounding characters and situations from Rome&#039;s early &quot;mythology&quot;. The first book, &quot;ROMA&quot;, brings us from chaolcolithic prehistoric beginnings up to the Imperatorial period and follows the actions and intertwined fates of two important founding patrician families from generation to generation. The second volume, &quot;EMPIRE&quot;, takes us through the 1st century and the &quot;12 Caesars&quot; period. He has also written several collections of short stories in which he can focus efforts to deal in greater detail with specific interesting facts, feats and occurrences which were either given less in-depth coverage in the novels or were outside the scope of the main course of the stories.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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