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Inventing a military unit like the 21st century Praetorian Guard Special Forces in my Roma Nova books was an interesting challenge! I chose to use the old Roman name because, although later corrupt and power broking, they were the courageous, battle-hardened elite who guarded the Ancient Roman emperor’s life with theirs. And service to the […] The old clichéd saying that ‘Rome wasn’t built in a day’ is true, but so was its ‘decline and fall’ equally slow. Going from its traditionally accepted date of foundation the Roman Empire in the West of 753 BC, it lasted 1229 years in the West until the abdication of Romulus Augustulus in 476 AD. […] Isca Dumnoniorum c. AD 350 I’ve been over in Devon staying with my writing friend Helen Hollick for a week and yesterday we visited Exeter, including the museum. Of course, I went for the Roman stuff! The Romans established a large castrum (fortified camp) named Isca around AD 55 at the southwest end […] |
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