num_pages: 773
description: Here is a magnificent novel set in the first century A.D. during the reigns of Claudius and Nero. With great power, Mika Waltari tells the turbulent story of Minutus, the man who was the childhood playmate of the young Nero and the passionate lover of Claudia, the emperor's illegitimate daughter. While he befriends Paul, preacher of the new Christian faith, Minutus is ultimately the man Nero appoints to organize the brutual massacre of scores of Christians after the burning of Rome.
language: English
title: The Roman
titlecomplete: The Roman
characters: Minutus Launsus Manilianus
genres: Classics, Drama, Historical, Religion, Italy, Finnish Literature, Novels, Ancient, Historical Fiction, Fiction
ratings_count: 1084
series: The Manilianus Duology
publisher: Berkeley