Ring of time
Subtitle: tales of a time-traveling historian in the Roman Empire
By: Āndrew M Seddon
Publisher: Splashdown Books
Published: 2014
Place of publication: Auckland]
Language: eng
Number of pages: 259
ISBN-13: 9781927154380
Copyright date: 2014
Subjects: Historians; Fiction; Time travel
Description: "In the 27th century, humanity's greatest technological achievement is the massive, star-powered Temporal Displacement Ring: a portal to the past. Professor Robert Cragg, reeling from his own personal losses, volunteers to be the first-ever time-traveling historian, fleeing into the shadow of the Roman Empire. Instead of dry, dusty bygones, he encounters real people. Commoners and nobility, sailors and businessmen, zealots and legionaries, druids, gladiators and philosophers all cross his path. The past, he finds, is not dead and gone, but very much alive ... alive with wonder, fear, and, perhaps, love"--Back cover.
Notes: Novel by UK author.
Table of contents: title: The ghosts of Kourion (Cyprus, AD 365); title: Tyndareus and Krikor (At sea, 15 BC); title: Moonrise over Metzada (Judea, AD 74); title: The slipper of Sulpicia Lepidina (Britain, AD 103); title: Dust of Caesar (Italy, AD 79); title: Eudaimon (Egypt, AD 132); title: Asellina's last fight (Britain, AD 84); title: Doctoral dissertation (Rome, AD 113); title: In the mists of Britain (Britain, AD 62); title: Kobrinia (Britain, AD 257); title: The arms of Venus (Melos (undated)); title: The philosopher's ring (Egypt, AD 415).