11-16-2004, 07:03 PM
This Authoress came to see the Guard at Stoneleigh since when I have had 2 of her books out of the library One the Sand Reckoner dealt with Archimedes and the other Render unto Caesar is set at the time of Augustus.<br>
She writes well with authority and weaves a believable ancient world.<br>
Archimedes shows the inventor at the time of the siege of Syracuse when it was besieged by Rome. The other is about a Greek wanting to recover a debt to his Uncle from a Consul. Not a promising subject but it is an absorbing read with good characters and a lot of detail on money and banking.<br>
She is particuarly interested in the concept of citizenship and in the earlier work she contrasts what it means to be a citizen of a Greek city to that of a Roman. In the later work we have a citizen of Greek origin insisting on his rights despite his peregrine origins. She has 16 novels published but not all are in print.<br>
bradshaw.port5.com/ <p></p><i></i>
She writes well with authority and weaves a believable ancient world.<br>
Archimedes shows the inventor at the time of the siege of Syracuse when it was besieged by Rome. The other is about a Greek wanting to recover a debt to his Uncle from a Consul. Not a promising subject but it is an absorbing read with good characters and a lot of detail on money and banking.<br>
She is particuarly interested in the concept of citizenship and in the earlier work she contrasts what it means to be a citizen of a Greek city to that of a Roman. In the later work we have a citizen of Greek origin insisting on his rights despite his peregrine origins. She has 16 novels published but not all are in print.<br>
bradshaw.port5.com/ <p></p><i></i>
Quod imperatum fuerit facimus et ad omnem tesseram parati erimus
