![]() To write a novel of such huge proportions is an achievement in itself, but as with Rutherfurd's Sarum, Roma suffers similar drawbacks. We should not be surprised, therefore, that one of America's foremost historical novelists, Steven Saylor, has decided to turn his hand to writing the epic novel of ancient Rome.Īs epics go, Roma is far less epic than Sarum, dealing with a mere 1000 years of history, from roughly 1,000BC down to 1BC, but for a city that grew to rule half the known world, the first thousand years is epic enough for anyone's tastes. ![]() Rutherfurd went on to repeat this epic format in several novels, all of which remain in print some twenty-odd years on. ![]() ![]() First there was Sarum, Edward Rutherfurd's mammoth 1000+ page documentary novel of 10,000 years of history surrounding the Neolithic monument known as Stonehenge and the towns that grew around it. ![]()
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