Mark Feeley - Writes A Roman Adventure Novel

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Mark Feeley - Writes A Roman Adventure Novel
  
Thirty or more years ago, I bought a copy of Ammianus Marcellinus’ History of the Later Roman Empire.” After reading it, I was hooked. The characters, the politics, the drama were all totally absorbing and created a rip-roaring tale which ended in the Roman defeat at Adrianople. I began to wonder, who were these people? How did they feel about the world around them and an empire which was beginning to crumble and fade? To find out more I completed an MA in Classical Civilisation at the University of London. I then toyed with the idea of doing something academic but baulked at the thought of having to learn Latin (I admire those who can). Instead I decided to write a book, thinking that this would give me the freedom to write about all the Roman things I love.
  
Author Mark Feeley
Reading Ammianus Marcellinus led to this book being written!
  
The Realm of a God is the final product. It is the start of an adventure story which will traverse the era. Servius, an ambitious Burgundian prince, must build a career for himself at an imperial court which is riven by conspiracy and faction. Valentinian, the aging emperor, is in poor health and those around him are beginning to search for a successor. Against this backdrop, Servius must journey to Rome to seize two champion racehorses. It is a task which will bring him into contact with the subtle scheming of the powerful Anicii, and the barbarous cruelty of the bagaudae.
 

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The Realm of a God
 
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Rome is crumbling. Beyond the Alps, the barbarian tribes are gathering. As part of a peace agreement, Servius, a young Burgundian prince, arrives as a hostage at the emperor’s court. Set to work in the imperial stables Servius soon makes new friends, but as he waits to become a soldier the world around him is changing. The emperor is ill and the succession in doubt. As others plot, Servius departs for Rome to seize two champion racehorses. Faced by the jealousy of the Anicii and the blood curdling brutality of the bagaudae, he can only survive by protecting the emperor’s honour ….
 
Ammianus Marcellinus - The Later Roman Empire: (AD 354-378)
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Ammianus Marcellinus was the last great Roman historian, and his writings rank alongside those of Livy and Tacitus. The Later Roman Empire chronicles a period of twenty-five years during Marcellinus' own lifetime, covering the reigns of Constantius, Julian, Jovian, Valentinian I, and Valens, and providing eyewitness accounts of significant military events including the Battle of Strasbourg and the Goth's Revolt. Portraying a time of rapid and dramatic change, Marcellinus describes an Empire exhausted by excessive taxation, corruption, the financial ruin of the middle classes and the progressive decline in the morale of the army. In this magisterial depiction of the closing decades of the Roman Empire, we can see the seeds of events that were to lead to the fall of the city, just twenty years after Marcellinus' death.
 
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