These nine tales tell the story of Gordianus's adopted son Eco's childhood, Gordianus's relationship with Bethesda (first his slave and now his wife), Bethesda's own background, and, perhaps most important, the history of Rome from the end of Sulla's dictatorship up until the time of the Spartacan slave revolt.
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Contents:
- Death Wears a Mask
- The Tale of the Treasure House
- A Will Is a Way
- The Lemures
- Little Caesar and the Pirates
- The Disappearance of the Saturnalia Silver
- King Bee and Honey
- The Alexandrian Cat
- The House of the Vestals
- The Life and Times of Gordianus the Finder: A Partial Chronology
- Historical Notes