Cast Not the Day - Hardcover

Paul Waters

3.67

99 ratings by Goodreads

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 023053032X ISBN 13: 9780230530324

Publisher: Macmillan, 2009

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A tale of love and loss, freedom and tyranny, and one mans struggle to know himself By the middle of fourth century AD, Britain and the Roman Empire had been ruled for a generation by Christian emperors. Now, at last, with the force of the state behind it, the Church was strong enough to suppress all opposition to its power. But in Britain there was still resistance... Seen through the eyes of Drusus, a young British Roman, and set against the backdrop of imperial civil war and the growing threat from Rome's enemies beyond its frontiers, the followers of faith and reason clash and the old values of classical enlightenment are called into question. And it is Drusus who is there to witness the cracks as they begin to split the great monumental edifice of the Roman Empire...

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About the Author:

Paul Waters is a well-travelled classicist, and though educated in Britain, he has lived much of his life abroad in Africa, America, Greece among other places. He now writes full time. His acclaimed first novel, Of Merchants & Heroes, was published in 2008.

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Praise for Paul Waters' Previous Works:
Naomi Mitchison, Mary Renault, Rosemary Sutclif, William Golding, and classicist Paul Waters deserve to be mentioned in the same breath. Altogether a most powerful and promising debut. --Paul Cartledge, author of "Thermopylae"
The ancient world has a new and insightful spokesman in Paul Waters. --Margaret George, bestselling author of "Helen of Troy"

Praise for Paul Waters' Previous Works:

?Naomi Mitchison, Mary Renault, Rosemary Sutclif, William Golding, and classicist Paul Waters deserve to be mentioned in the same breath. Altogether a most powerful and promising debut.? --Paul Cartledge, author of "Thermopylae"

?The ancient world has a new and insightful spokesman in Paul Waters.? --Margaret George, bestselling author of "Helen of Troy"

Praise for Paul Waters' Previous Works:
?Naomi Mitchison, Mary Renault, Rosemary Sutclif, William Golding, and classicist Paul Waters deserve to be mentioned in the same breath. Altogether a most powerful and promising debut.? --Paul Cartledge, author of "Thermopylae"
?The ancient world has a new and insightful spokesman in Paul Waters.? --Margaret George, bestselling author of "Helen of Troy"

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