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SPQR XII

Oracle of the Dead

by (author) John Maddox Roberts

read by John Lee

Publisher
Brilliance Audio
Initial publish date
Mar 2019
Category
Historical
  • CD-Audio

    ISBN
    9781978618176
    Publish Date
    Mar 2019
    List Price
    $29.99
  • CD-Audio

    ISBN
    9781522602293
    Publish Date
    May 2016
    List Price
    $14.99

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Decius Caecilius Metellus, this year's magistrate for cases involving foreigners, is living the good life in southern Italy, happy to be away from Rome, a city suffering war jitters over Caesar's impending actions. He thinks he is merely visiting one of the local sights when he takes a party to visit the Oracle of the Dead, a pre-Roman cult site located at the end of a tunnel dug beneath a temple of Apollo. He quickly learns that there is a bitter rivalry between the priests of Apollo and those of Hecate, who guard the oracle.

When the priests of Apollo are all killed, the countryside looks to explode in violence as Greeks, Romans, and native Italians of several conquered nations bring out old enmities. Decius is caught squarely in the middle, desperate to find a way out that will pacify the district and, incidentally, save his own skin.

About the authors

John Maddox Roberts is the author of numerous works of science fiction and fantasy in addition to his SPQR series set in ancient Rome. He and his wife live in New Mexico.

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