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Felix Dahn
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R1,485
Discovery Miles 14 850
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Felix Dahn was a nineteenth century German Professor of
Jurisprudence, as well as a historian, novelist and poet, who was
greatly admired by his academic contemporaries for his grasp of the
historical detail of the periods about which he wrote. He has been
well served by this magisterial translation, which at last makes
this astonishingly rich novel available to the modern English
reader. This is a story - perhaps the story - of the clash between
two great civilizations of the sixth century of the Common Era,
when the Roman Empire had crumbled into dust; the struggle for
Rome, and for Italy, between the Eastern Roman Empire of Byzantium,
ruled by Justinian, and the Gothic warrior tribes who had captured
Italy under their legendary king Theodoric. We see this epoch
through the eyes of different personalities at the centre of these
events which shook the world as they knew it; most are historical
figures and some are imaginary but typical; Justinian and his
beautiful and scheming wife, Theodora; the great commander
Belisarius, immortalised by Robert Graves; Totila and Teias, two
Gothic kings, one as bold and bright as the sun and the other as
black as night; and Cethegus, the Prefect of Rome and the last of
the Romans, whose cold and calculating nature runs through the book
like a steel thread, who will stop at nothing to regain the ancient
city, and who, in the end, fails and redeems his many crimes with a
hero's death. Firmly based on historical fact and contemporary
sources, A Struggle for Rome is one of the great historical novels
of the world.
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