First Gladiator of Rome: The story of Marcus Attilius - Softcover

Hastings, Mr Robert D

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1976812828 ISBN 13: 9781976812828

Verlag: Independently published, 2018

Inhaltsangabe

IMMERSE YOURSELF IN ANCIENT ROME AND THE SANDS OF ANCIENT JUDEAIT IS 68AD: Flavian Vespasian rules Rome. A young man enters Rome taking his place as a gardener in the estate of Cassius Laurentius who ultimately becomes a man intent on ruining his life. Marcus Attilius, lured by the bars and gambling of Rome incurs increasing gambling debts which he cannot pay and escapes to the army. He learns to fight in the Fifth legion under the unrelenting heat of Judea. Promoted to Tirarii, he fights at the brutal siege of Jerusalem and against the Sacarii, the dagger men, on the plains as they traverse Judea to the high fort of Masada where Marcus is critically injured by a single arrow shot and is repatriated to the island of Sicilia to heal before he returns to Rome. Mourning the loss of his legion and no job prospects he joins the Ludis (gladiator school) to train as a first year, Tirone. Marcus Attilius evolves as a gifted fighter and meets his first brutal encounter against Britanicus, a champion of Rome. Months later, under the watchful eye of his Lanista, Aetius, he is pitted against the greatest Gladiator of the empire by the name of Hilarius, an undefeated, twelve wreath, champion of Rome and regarded as a contest that Marcus cannot win as a first year, gladiator. The famous contest is held in Pompeii, under the smouldering peak of Mount Vesuvius as Marcus Attilius meets his ultimate challenge before a crowd of twenty thousand spectators to gain the title of Primus Gladiatori.

Details zur Ausgabe

• Verlag: Independently published
• Erscheinungsdatum: 2018
• Sprache: Englisch
• ISBN 10: 1976812828
• ISBN 13: 9781976812828
• Einband: Taschenbuch
• Anzahl der Seiten: 458
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