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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;kaparthy, post: 1821741, member: 57463&quot;]Not recently, but I have read these:</p><p><b><i>Up the Line </i>by Robert Silverberg. </b> Set in Constantinople between the time of Justinian and the Fall, most of the action takes place in the middle years. The hapless hero is a Guide for time travel tourism.&nbsp; He loses track of and control of his charges and the timeline is damaged.&nbsp; It get worse for him from there. But the writing is lively and accurate.&nbsp; As I recall, they&nbsp; assign him to fill in for another guide and take some tourists to England of the Black Plague.</p><p><br /></p><p>(Silverberg has been extremely prolific from childhood, publishing a million words a year as a teenager.)&nbsp; He wrote two non-fiction books,&nbsp; Sunken History: The Story of Underwater Archaeology (1963), and&nbsp; Great Adventures in Archaeology (1964). Some of his space yarns involve archaeology. I recall one in which the natives produced beautiful fakes to please the explorers.)</p><p><br /></p><p><b><i>Silver Pigs</i> by Lindsey Davis.</b> (Googled for cites: &quot;Set in Rome and Britannia during AD 70, just after the year of the four emperors,&quot; and &quot;The intriguing premise of a detective story set in Imperial Rome in 70 A.D. is unpredictably fulfilled by Davis&#039;s hero-gumshoe, M. Didius Falco.&quot;)&nbsp; I actually did not like this as much. It seemed like Sam Spade: Lost in Rome. The author did not capture the &quot;feel&quot; of Rome to me.&nbsp; Maybe someone else liked it more.&nbsp; Literature is like that.</p><p><br /></p><p>I liked <b><i>Roman Blood</i> by Stephen Saylor.</b> (<a href="http://popclassicsjg.blogspot.com/2011/12/top-five-roman-murder-mysteries.html" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="http://popclassicsjg.blogspot.com/2011/12/top-five-roman-murder-mysteries.html" rel="nofollow">Reviewed with other Roman Murder Mysteries here:</a> &quot;Saylor takes an extant defense speech by Cicero and a real murder case and builds a murder mystery from it, offering his own (fictional) solution to the case and using Gordianus to explore the various characters involved, especially Cicero himself and his secretary Tiro. Saylor also examines Sulla and his dictatorship but, reading this long before I ever studied any ancient history, it was the murder mystery and the characters, especially Tiro and Bethesda...&quot; [more]</p><p><br /></p><p><b><i>The Dancer from Atlantis</i> by Poul Anderson</b> is set in the Minoan world at the time of the Mycenaean conquest.&nbsp; An American engineer is swept up by a crashing time machine that snatches a Viking and one other guy and drops the three of them near Knossos before the pilot dies.&nbsp; &quot;Shall I compare you to Aphrodite?&quot; the American says to woo the priestess. &quot;Aphrodite! That barrel-buttocked cow-teated bitch who is always in heat?!&quot; </p><p><br /></p><p><b><i>A Choice of Destinies</i> by Melissa Scott</b> is about a mystical priestess who shows up at the key moments in the life of Alexander the Great to give him good advice.&nbsp; He does not go to India. He does not get sick and die. He does conquer Carthage and Rome and unite the known world.</p><p><br /></p><p><b>MARY RENAULT </b>- the queen of ancient Greek fiction. <b><i>The Bull from the Sea, The King Must Die, The Persian Boy.</i></b></p><p><br /></p><p>See this website for more than you will know what to do with.</p><p>Historical Novels</p><p><a href="http://www.historicalnovels.info/Ancient.html" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="http://www.historicalnovels.info/Ancient.html" rel="nofollow">http://www.historicalnovels.info/Ancient.html</a>[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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