Saylor uses one fictional family to tell the story of Rome from its founding through the end of the Republic. I read it because I have an ongoing interest in Roman history, but Saylor is no Michener (he’s not even a Rutherfurd) and his exposition, consisting of long-winded speeches in which two-dimensional characters tell other characters things they would already know for the reader’s benefit is awkward.
December 5th, 2010 at 1:26 pm
I thought it was a decent book. Not great, but decent.