01-09-2008, 08:49 PM
Have to say I don't like Manfredi's 'Greek' or 'Roman' books......they're creaky and seem somewhat'Victorian' in style with that type of outlook on history i.e. romanticised and frequently in error.......
If you like murder mysteries woven in with your ancient history, I can recommend the "Medicus" stories by R.S. Downie......which concern a legionary doctor in the time of Trajan and Hadrian, who tends to come across bodies.......rather like the "Brother Cadfael" books of Ellis Peters, set in late Norman times, and also recommended...
Thank you for the laud,Senovara - much appreciated, and as you can see by way of return I've recommended some more books!
D
If you like murder mysteries woven in with your ancient history, I can recommend the "Medicus" stories by R.S. Downie......which concern a legionary doctor in the time of Trajan and Hadrian, who tends to come across bodies.......rather like the "Brother Cadfael" books of Ellis Peters, set in late Norman times, and also recommended...
Thank you for the laud,Senovara - much appreciated, and as you can see by way of return I've recommended some more books!
D
"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
