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And those teenage hangups are hard to beat
I had forgotten the thread in Katherine Kincaid's Beloved Bondage (1993) that now reads like Christian inspirational romance, but then again that is an occupational hazard of narratives set in early imperial Rome. I've seen Ben-Hur (1959), and Quo Vadis (1951), and keep having to double-check about The Robe (1953). Now I want to re-read I, Claudius (1934), which thanks to the exigencies of my current life is in storage when it used to be one of the books I always unpacked first. In tenth grade, the majority of my friend group was reading Mercedes Lackey and I was reading Robert Graves. To each their id.
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You know, the standard early Christians in Rome: "She wished she could belive in a gentle, kind, compassionate god, instead of the cruel, capricious deities who were so difficult to please or understand . . . He could believe anything in her arms—even the lovely fable of eternity and the story of a Jewish carpenter's son-turned-king who promised happiness and a glorious future in another world. Would it not be wonderful if it were really true?" I really had forgotten about it, but I have more of an allergy these days. This is a romance novel whose hero turns out to be Caratacus in the last few pages. It leaves no stop unpulled.
(I appreciate the offer. I may just see if I can get mine out of storage. They are the red-covered Modern Library editions and I've nver read any other.)
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*googles book*
HOLY PANTS, PLEASE TELL ME THERE'S A JUDAH BEN HUR CAMEO
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They had a lot of chthonic. You'd recognize it. There are even significant trees.
HOLY PANTS, PLEASE TELL ME THERE'S A JUDAH BEN HUR CAMEO
There is tragically not, but there is an important chariot race. The lead horse of the hero's team is Incitatus.