Title: The Course of Honour
First published: 1997
Description: The true-life love story of the Emperor Vespasian and the freedwoman Antonia Caenis. Despite a twenty-year hiatus, during which Vespasian married a woman of status and fathered the two future Emperors Titus and Domitian and a daughter, Domitillia, the love of Vespasian and Caenis endured until her death  after he became emperor.
A good account of the turbulent reigns of Tiberius, Caligula, Claudius, as well as the Year of Four Emperors.
Subjects: Fiction, Women slaves, Rome, fiction, Fiction, historical, Fiction, mystery & detective, general, Fiction, historical, general, Large type books
Places: Rome
People: Vespasian Emperor of Rome (9-79)
LC classification: PR6054.A8925 C68 2009