num_pages: 255
description: It is 414 A.D. and the once-powerful Roman Empire is in its death throessplit between East and West menaced by barbarian hordes almost literally at its gates. The Emperor Honorious cowers in the marsh-bound city of Ravenna where he has moved the government. There is the Prefect Hadrian a powerful official and fanatical Christian convert; Marcus Anicius the pagan aristocrat who is clinging to a dyping past and the Jew Eliezar ben Elijah hemmed in by his own traditions and burdened by his dark vision of the future.
language: English
title: Threshold of Fire: a novel of fifth century Rome
publisher: Academy Chicago Publishers