02-21-2008, 01:03 AM
Hi Nick !
I too have that book, or rather a copy of the twentieth re-print in 1977!
The original was copyright 1958, and first published by Panther in 1960.
It's popularity is accounted for by it's rather lurid sock-it-to-'em style. The author used mostly secondary sources, but also Seutonius, Tacitus, Apuleius, Petronius and The Memoirs of Diocles....the book also contains many salacious tidbits which may also account for it's popularity at a less jaded age than ours....It is written in a semi-fictional style, which makes it easy to read, but much of it's detail must be taken with a grain of salt, but it does make for a good introduction to the subject.... :wink: :wink:
I too have that book, or rather a copy of the twentieth re-print in 1977!
The original was copyright 1958, and first published by Panther in 1960.
It's popularity is accounted for by it's rather lurid sock-it-to-'em style. The author used mostly secondary sources, but also Seutonius, Tacitus, Apuleius, Petronius and The Memoirs of Diocles....the book also contains many salacious tidbits which may also account for it's popularity at a less jaded age than ours....It is written in a semi-fictional style, which makes it easy to read, but much of it's detail must be taken with a grain of salt, but it does make for a good introduction to the subject.... :wink: :wink:
"dulce et decorum est pro patria mori " - Horace
(It is a sweet and proper thing to die for ones country)
"No son-of-a-bitch ever won a war by dying for his country. He won it by making the other poor dumb bastard die for his country" - George C Scott as General George S. Patton
Paul McDonnell-Staff
(It is a sweet and proper thing to die for ones country)
"No son-of-a-bitch ever won a war by dying for his country. He won it by making the other poor dumb bastard die for his country" - George C Scott as General George S. Patton
Paul McDonnell-Staff