The course of honour
By: Lindsey Davis.
Edition: 1st U.S. ed.
Publisher: St. Martin Griffin
Published: 2009
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 341
ISBN-13: 9780312556167
Subjects: Vespasian, -- Emperor of Rome, -- 9-79 -- Fiction; Women slaves -- Rome -- Fiction; Rome -- Fiction
Genres: Fiction
Work titles: Course of honor
Description: "In ancient Rome, ambitious citizens who aspired to political power, to become one of the ruling elite--a senator, had to follow what was known as 'The Course of Honor.' This course had only one unbreakable rule: a senator is forbidden to marry a slave, even a freed slave. When the soldier Vespasian meets an interesting girl in the imperial palace, he doesn't know she is a slave in the household of the imperial family. But he is inexorably drawn in by her intelligence and charisma. Yet as Vespasian slowly rises from near-obscurity and as emperor after emperor plays out their own deadly, seductive games of lust and conquest, the future is something no one could imagine. No one could believe that a country-born army man might win the throne--no one, that is, except a slave girl who, with the future Emperor, begins a daring course of honor of her own."--Amazon.com.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.