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A Novel of Spartacus
Doubleday
May 2016
On Sale: May 3, 2016
Featuring: Spartacus
496 pages
ISBN: 038553566X
EAN: 9780385535663
Kindle: B0104ELS9I
Hardcover / e-Book
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Historical
From the author of the widely praised Pride of
Carthage, the superb fictional rendering of Hannibal’s
epic military campaigns against Carthage’s archenemy Rome,
comes the perfect follow-up: an equally superb novel of the
legendary gladiator Spartacus and the vast slave revolt he
led that came ever so close to bringing Rome, with its
supposedly invincible legions, to its knees. In this thrilling and panoramic historical novel we see one
of the most storied uprisings of classical times from
multiple points of view: Spartacus, the visionary captive
and gladiator whose toughness and charisma turn a prison
break into a multi-cultural revolt that threatens an empire;
his consort, the oracular Astera, whose connection to the
spirit world and its omens guides the uprising’s progress;
Nonus, a Roman soldier working both sides of the conflict in
a half-adroit, half-desperate attempt to save his life;
Laelia and Hustus, two shepherd children drawn into the
ranks of the slave rebellion; Kaleb, the slave secretary to
Crassus, the Roman senator and commander saddled with the
unenviable task of quashing an insurrection of mere slaves;
and other players in a vast spectacle of bloodshed, heroism,
and treachery. In the pages of The Risen—the term the slaves in
revolt have adopted for themselves—an entire, teeming world
comes into view with great clarity and titanic drama, with
nothing less than the future of the ancient world at stake.
No one brings more verve, intelligence, and freshness to the
novel of the classical age than David Anthony Durham.
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