Decimus Rex and Olu Umbika, still on the run from Slavius Doom, must decide what to do when four of their friends still in captivity are threatened with execution if the runaways do not return.
Examines Roman and early Christian visual arts in their social and cultural context, discussing the art of the era in relation to issues such as religion, power, death, society, and acculturation.
An abridged edition of eighteenth-century English writer Edward Gibbon's chronicle of the Roman Empire's history from the second through the fifteenth century. Includes an introduction by David Womersley.
Traces the history of the Roman Empire from the days of the Republic, through the reign of the Caesars and the influence of Christianity, to the fall of Rome.
