01-24-2011, 05:50 PM
(This post was last modified: 11-08-2015, 12:05 AM by Nathan Ross.)
George Shipway's 'Imperial Governor', recommended on this board before, is a pretty solid and detailed account of the Boudicca revolt from the point of view of Suetonius Paulinus. There's one major outbreak of cheese - a scene of bizarre chariot-sex involving Cartimandua, of all people (what is it with these 'military' novelists and female characters?) - but if you can overlook that, the rest's very good.
On non-military topics, Graves' 'I Claudius' and 'Claudius the God' are classics. Likewise Marguerite Yourcenar's 'Memoirs of Hadrian', and is about as far from cheese as you can get. I like Mario de Carvalho's 'A God Strolling in the Cool of Evening', which concerns the siege of a provincial city in Spain, but is mainly about the interactions of the city residents.
- Nathan
On non-military topics, Graves' 'I Claudius' and 'Claudius the God' are classics. Likewise Marguerite Yourcenar's 'Memoirs of Hadrian', and is about as far from cheese as you can get. I like Mario de Carvalho's 'A God Strolling in the Cool of Evening', which concerns the siege of a provincial city in Spain, but is mainly about the interactions of the city residents.
- Nathan
Nathan Ross
