| Author: | Hella S. Haasse | ISBN: | 9781613734568 |
| Publisher: | Chicago Review Press | Publication: | August 30, 2005 |
| Imprint: | Chicago Review Press | Language: | English |
| Author: | Hella S. Haasse |
| ISBN: | 9781613734568 |
| Publisher: | Chicago Review Press |
| Publication: | August 30, 2005 |
| Imprint: | Chicago Review Press |
| Language: | English |
It is 414 A.D. and the once-powerful Roman Empire is in its death throes—split 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.
It is 414 A.D. and the once-powerful Roman Empire is in its death throes—split 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.
