By George Gardiner
ISBN-10: 0980746914
ISBN-13: 9780980746914
Caesar's deadly look for love ...
Ancient Rome, a hundred thirty years after Christ yet nonetheless centuries prior to Christians in attaining country attractiveness. Caesar Hadrian is the ruler of an enormous Empire on the top of its wealth & strength. one in all "the 5 solid emperors", Hadrian dominates a tradition governed by way of pagan values, inequities, & ambiguous sexualities.
From a merciless war's victory Triumph via Rome's discussion board, to a drunken revel at Athens' Acropolis; from the stirring pleasure of a board hunt within the forests of Bithynia, to the steam rooms of a grand Roman bath-house; from the opulent bordellos of Alexandria, to the privateness of an emperor's mattress chamber, Hadrian's look for love destroys the very individual he so much adores.
During his 400-strong touring Court's leisurely excitement trip via Egypt Hadrian's significant other & 'Favorite', Antinous of Bithynia, is located lifeless one sunrise underneath the waters of the River Nile. Hadrian is distraught. Is it a drunken prank long gone flawed, suicide, homicide, or anything way more sinister?
Hadrian instructions the historian, barrister, & renown libertine Suetonius Tranquillus to urgently examine. he's given seventy two hours to figure out the reason for dying. Suetonius, ever opportune, hires a hetaera sex-worker concubine, Surisca of Antioch, as an an interpreter & paramour to aid the research. among them & their courtier colleagues, they interrogate contributors of the courtroom as numerous new deaths happen. during their research they discover a subterranean conspiracy which finds greater than Hadrian may need to understand, or wish others to grasp. They expose the uninhibited appetites of the ruling periods amid the elemental human desire for affection & bonding, regardless of the relationship.
THE HADRIAN ENIGMA is Suetonius's mystery list of the research into one in all history's such a lot interesting, suspicious fatalities. It depicts an period of secure morals one of the elites which sanctions males loving males in a sexist macho tradition of warrior delight, honor & disgrace.
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