Statia Mitela – Heroine of 'The Idealist' in HEROICA

Statia Mitela who features in ‘The Idealist’, the third HEROICA story, a dual timeline story, is undoubtedly rash. But she’s also courageous and altruistic.

Unlike the two other heroines featuring in HEROICA, she isn’t serving in the military, but is a senator and head of the powerful Mitela family in the mid 19th century. She […]

Honoria Mitela – Heroine of 'Honoria's Battle' in HEROICA

In the second HEROICA story, Honoria Mitela is a Pretorian Guard soldier in 17th century Roma Nova. She’s achieved the rank of prefect (praefectus), a senior commander. Grades and ranks still reflect the classic Roman Empire ones, something that will change in the 19th century to a mixture of classic and the equivalents of other […]

An excerpt from HEROICA

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Here’s a taster from Revolution?, the first story in HEROICA

Roma Nova, 2020

‘You are joking!’

‘You think subversive activity threatening Roma Nova is a joke?’ Legate Conradus Mitelus, head of the Praetorian Guard Special Forces, and for good or bad, also my husband, frowned at me. […]